Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Identifying asynchronous power loss
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Application No.: US15911490Application Date: 2018-03-05
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Publication No.: US10303535B2Publication Date: 2019-05-28
- Inventor: Michael G. Miller , Ashutosh Malshe , Violante Moschiano , Peter Feeley , Gary F. Besinga , Sampath K. Ratnam , Walter Di-Francesco , Renato C. Padilla, Jr. , Yun Li , Kishore Kumar Muchherla
- Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Applicant Address: US ID Boise
- Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US ID Boise
- Agency: Dicke, Billig & Czaja, PLLC
- Main IPC: G11C29/50
- IPC: G11C29/50 ; G06F11/07 ; G06F3/06

Abstract:
Apparatus include controllers configured to iteratively program a group of memory cells to respective desired data states; determine whether a power loss to the apparatus is indicated while iteratively programming the group of memory cells; and if a power loss to the apparatus is indicated, to change the desired data state of the particular memory cell before continuing with the programming. Apparatus further include controllers configured to read a particular memory cell of a last written page of memory cells, determine whether a threshold voltage of the particular memory cell is less than a particular voltage level, and to mark the last written page of memory cells as affected by power loss during a programming operation of the last written page of memory cells when the threshold voltage of the particular memory cell is determined to be higher than the particular voltage level.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180196705A1 IDENTIFYING ASYNCHRONOUS POWER LOSS Public/Granted day:2018-07-12
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