Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Customizable backup and restore from nonvolatile logic array
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Application No.: US15089607Application Date: 2016-04-04
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Publication No.: US11244710B2Publication Date: 2022-02-08
- Inventor: Steven Craig Bartling , Sudhanshu Khanna
- Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Charles F. Koch; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: G11C7/22
- IPC: G11C7/22 ; G06F3/06 ; H03K3/3562 ; G06F11/10 ; G06F11/14 ; G06F12/02 ; G06F9/4401 ; G06F1/3203 ; G06F1/3234 ; G06F1/3287 ; G06F13/00 ; G11C14/00

Abstract:
Design and operation of a processing device is configurable to optimize wake-up time and peak power cost during restoration of a machine state from non-volatile storage. The processing device includes a plurality of non-volatile logic element arrays configured to store a machine state represented by a plurality of volatile storage elements of the processing device. A stored machine state is read out from the plurality of non-volatile logic element arrays to the plurality of volatile storage elements. During manufacturing, a number of rows and a number of bits per row in non-volatile logic element arrays are based on a target wake up time and a peak power cost. In another approach, writing data to or reading data of the plurality of non-volatile arrays can be done in parallel, sequentially, or in any combination to optimize operation characteristics.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160217840A1 Customizable Backup and Restore from NonVolatile Logic Array Public/Granted day:2016-07-28
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