Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Memory bank power coordination including concurrently performing a memory operation in a selected number of memory regions
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Application No.: US15090301Application Date: 2016-04-04
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Publication No.: US10453502B2Publication Date: 2019-10-22
- Inventor: Kelley D. Dobelstein , Jason T. Zawodny , Kyle B. Wheeler
- 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: Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch, PLLC
- Main IPC: G11C7/10
- IPC: G11C7/10 ; G11C11/4074 ; G11C8/12 ; G06F12/06 ; G11C11/4076 ; G11C11/408 ; G11C11/4096 ; G06F13/16

Abstract:
Apparatuses and methods related to memory bank power coordination in a memory device are disclosed. A method for memory bank power coordination may include concurrently performing a memory operation by a threshold number of memory regions, such as banks or subarrays, and executing a command to cause a power budget operation associated with the memory operation to be performed, based at least in part on information stored in a budget area, such as a register. The threshold number of memory regions may be set based at least in part on a threshold power consumption value, and the number of memory regions to concurrently perform an operation may be controlled by a bank arbiter. A counter having a value representing the threshold number of memory regions may be decremented while performing an operation, or incremented upon completion of an operation, associated with one of the memory regions. A number of the memory regions may be selected to perform a processing-in-memory (PIM) operation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170285988A1 MEMORY POWER COORDINATION Public/Granted day:2017-10-05
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