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- Patent Title: Power backup architecture to manage capacitor health
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Application No.: US16524933Application Date: 2019-07-29
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Publication No.: US11409348B2Publication Date: 2022-08-09
- Inventor: Vehid Suljic , Matthew D. Rowley
- 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: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: G06F1/28
- IPC: G06F1/28 ; G11C5/14 ; G06F1/30 ; G06F3/06 ; H02J7/34

Abstract:
Various embodiments described herein use a plurality of capacitor sets (e.g., capacitor banks) in a power backup architecture for an electronic system (e.g., memory sub-system), where each capacitor set can be individually checked against a health condition (e.g., in parallel) to determine their respective health during power-up of an electronic system or during normal operation of the electronic system. In response to determining that at least one capacitor set has failed the health condition (or a certain number of capacitor sets have failed the health condition), the electronic system can perform certain operations prior to primary power loss to the electronic system (e.g., memory sub-system preemptively performs a data backup process to data integrity) and can adjust the operational mode of the electronic system (e.g., memory sub-system switches from read-write mode to read-only mode).
Public/Granted literature
- US20210034128A1 POWER BACKUP ARCHITECTURE TO MANAGE CAPACITOR HEALTH Public/Granted day:2021-02-04
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