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公开(公告)号:US11960722B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-16
申请号:US17872217
申请日:2022-07-25
Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Inventor: Tomoharu Tanaka , Huai-Yuan Tseng , Dung V. Nguyen , Kishore Kumar Muchherla , Eric N. Lee , Akira Goda , James Fitzpatrick , Dave Ebsen
IPC: G06F3/06
CPC classification number: G06F3/0608 , G06F3/064 , G06F3/0679
Abstract: A memory device includes an array of memory cells and a controller configured to access the array of memory cells. The controller is further configured to program a first number of bits to a first memory cell of the array of memory cells and program a second number of bits to a second memory cell of the array of memory cells. The controller is further configured to following a period after programming the second number of bits to the second memory cell, merge at least a subset of the first number of bits stored in the first memory cell to the second number of bits stored in the second memory cell without erasing the second memory cell such that the second number of bits plus at least the subset of the first number of bits are stored in the second memory cell.
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公开(公告)号:US20240062799A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-22
申请号:US17890040
申请日:2022-08-17
Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Huai-Yuan Tseng , Akira Goda , Kishore Kumar Muchherla , James Fitzpatrick , Tomoharu Tanaka , Eric N. Lee , Dung V. Nguyen , David Ebsen
IPC: G11C11/406 , G11C11/4076 , G11C11/408
CPC classification number: G11C11/40615 , G11C11/40618 , G11C11/4076 , G11C11/4085
Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems related to maintaining stored data are described. The apparatus may be configured to refresh the stored data according to schedule that includes different delays between successive refresh operations.
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公开(公告)号:US20240028200A1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-25
申请号:US17872217
申请日:2022-07-25
Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Inventor: Tomoharu Tanaka , Huai-Yuan Tseng , Dung V. Nguyen , Kishore Kumar Muchherla , Eric N. Lee , Akira Goda , James Fitzpatrick , Dave Ebsen
IPC: G06F3/06
CPC classification number: G06F3/0608 , G06F3/064 , G06F3/0679
Abstract: A memory device includes an array of memory cells and a controller configured to access the array of memory cells. The controller is further configured to program a first number of bits to a first memory cell of the array of memory cells and program a second number of bits to a second memory cell of the array of memory cells. The controller is further configured to following a period after programming the second number of bits to the second memory cell, merge at least a subset of the first number of bits stored in the first memory cell to the second number of bits stored in the second memory cell without erasing the second memory cell such that the second number of bits plus at least the subset of the first number of bits are stored in the second memory cell.
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公开(公告)号:US20230360705A1
公开(公告)日:2023-11-09
申请号:US18138551
申请日:2023-04-24
Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Huai-Yuan Tseng , Giovanni Maria Paolucci , Kishore Kumar Muchherla , James Fitzpatrick , Akira Goda
Abstract: A method includes causing a first set of memory cells, associated with a first wordline of a memory array, to be programmed with a first set of threshold voltage distributions; causing a second set of memory cells, associated with a second wordline adjacent to the first wordline, to be programmed with a second set of threshold voltage distributions; after programming the second set of cells, causing the first set of memory cells to be coarse programmed with an intermediate third set of threshold voltage distributions that is at least twice in number compared to the first set; and causing the first set of memory cells to be fine programmed with a final third set of threshold voltage distributions. At least some threshold voltage distributions of the final third set of threshold voltage distributions have wider read window margins than those of the intermediate third set of threshold voltage distributions.
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公开(公告)号:US20230335201A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-19
申请号:US18135915
申请日:2023-04-18
Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Tomoharu Tanaka , James Fitzpatrick , Huai-Yuan Tseng , Kishore Kumar Muchherla , Eric N. Lee , David Scott Ebsen , Dung Viet Nguyen , Akira Goda
CPC classification number: G11C16/26 , G11C16/102 , G11C16/08
Abstract: A method includes causing a read operation to be initiated with respect to a set of target cells. For each target cell, a respective group of adjacent cells is adjacent to the target cell. The method further includes obtaining, for each group of adjacent cells, respective cell state information, assigning, based on the cell state information, each target cell of the set of target cells to a respective state information bin, and determining a set of calibrated read level offsets. Each state information bin is associated with a respective group of target cells of the set of target cells, and each calibrated read level offset of the set of calibrated read level offsets is associated with a respective state information bin of the set of state information bins.
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公开(公告)号:US20230333770A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-19
申请号:US17723244
申请日:2022-04-18
Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Inventor: Karl David Schuh , Kishore Kumar Muchherla , Daniel Jerre Hubbard , James Fitzpatrick
IPC: G06F3/06
CPC classification number: G06F3/0655 , G06F3/0604 , G06F3/0679
Abstract: A set of host data items is received for programming to the memory subsystem. The set of host data items is programmed to a first region of the memory subsystem that includes one or more memory devices. A determination is made that a sequence at which the set of host data items are programmed across memory devices of the first region does not correspond to a target sequence associated with accessing the set of host data items via the first region. The target sequence corresponds to a sequence that enables a host data items programmed to the memory sub-system to be accessed in parallel. The set of host data items is copied from the first region to a second region of the memory subsystem. A sequence at which the set of host data items is copied to memory devices of the second region corresponds to the target sequence.
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公开(公告)号:US11775217B2
公开(公告)日:2023-10-03
申请号:US17534850
申请日:2021-11-24
Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
Inventor: James Fitzpatrick , Sivagnanam Parthasarathy , Patrick Robert Khayat , AbdelHakim S. Alhussien
CPC classification number: G06F3/0659 , G06F3/0604 , G06F3/0679 , G11C16/26 , G11C16/0483
Abstract: A memory sub-system configured to adaptively and/or iteratively determine sub-operations of executing a read command to retrieve data from memory cells. For example, after receiving the read command from a processing device of a memory sub-system, a memory device starts an atomic operation of executing the read command in the memory device. The memory device can have one or more groups of memory cells formed on an integrated circuit die and a calibration circuit configured to measure signal and noise characteristics of memory cells in the memory device. During the atomic operation, the calibration circuit generates outputs, based on which a read manager of the memory sub-system identifies sub-operations to be performed in the atomic operation and/or decides to end the atomic operation.
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公开(公告)号:US11699491B2
公开(公告)日:2023-07-11
申请号:US17247643
申请日:2020-12-18
Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Phong Sy Nguyen , James Fitzpatrick , Kishore Kumar Muchherla
CPC classification number: G11C16/20 , G11C16/26 , G11C16/30 , G11C2211/561
Abstract: Control logic in a memory device identifies a first plurality of groups of programming distributions, wherein each group comprises a subset of programming distributions associated with a portion of a memory array of the memory device configured as quad-level (QLC) memory. During a first pass of a multi-pass programming operation, the control logic coarsely programs memory cells in the portion configured as QLC memory to initial values representing a second plurality of pages of host data and stores, in a portion of the memory array of the memory device configured as single-level cell (SLC) memory, an indicator of the first plurality of groups of programming distributions with which each of the coarsely programmed memory cells is associated. During a second pass of the multi-pass programming operation, the control logic reads the coarsely programmed initial values from the first pass based on the indicator of the first plurality of groups of programming distributions and finely programs the memory cells in the portion configured as QLC memory to final values representing the second plurality of pages of host data.
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公开(公告)号:US20230145358A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-11
申请号:US17978890
申请日:2022-11-01
Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Jeffrey S. McNeil , Sivagnanam Parthasarathy , Kishore Kumar Muchherla , Patrick R. Khayat , Sead Zildzic , Violante Moschiano , James Fitzpatrick
IPC: G06F3/06
CPC classification number: G06F3/0611 , G06F3/0679 , G06F3/064
Abstract: A method includes receiving, by control logic of a memory device, a copyback clear command from a processing device; causing, in response to the copyback clear command, a page buffer to perform a dual-strobe read operation on first memory cells configured as single-level cells, the dual-strobe read operation including a soft strobe at a first threshold voltage and a hard strobe at a second threshold voltage that are sensed between threshold voltage distributions of the first memory cells; causing the page buffer to determine a number of one bit values within the threshold voltage distributions detected in a threshold voltage range between the first/second threshold voltages; and causing, in response to the number of one bit values not satisfying a threshold criterion, a copyback of data in the first memory cells to second memory cells configured as high-level cells without intervention from the processing device.
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公开(公告)号:US20220342813A1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-27
申请号:US17302064
申请日:2021-04-22
Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Kishore Kumar Muchherla , Giuseppina Puzzilli , Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu , Ashutosh Malshe , James Fitzpatrick , Shyam Sunder Raghunathan , Violante Moschiano , Tecla Ghilardi
Abstract: A highly read data manager of a memory device receives a request to perform receives a request to perform a data relocation operation on a first wordline of a plurality of wordlines for a memory device, the memory device comprising a plurality of multi-level memory cells, wherein each multi-level memory cell comprises a plurality of pages; determines at the first wordline comprises data stored at one or more high read disturb pages of the plurality of pages; determines whether the data comprises a characteristic that satisfies a threshold criterion in relation to additional data stored on additional wordlines of the plurality of wordlines; responsive to determining that the data comprises the characteristic that satisfies the threshold criterion, identifies one or more low read disturb pages of the plurality of pages of a target wordline for relocating the data; and responsive to identifying the one or more low read disturb pages of the target wordline, stores at least a portion of the data at the one or more low read disturb pages of the target wordline.
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