Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Performing refresh operations of non-volatile memory to mitigate read disturb
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Application No.: US17167922Application Date: 2021-02-04
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Publication No.: US11532347B2Publication Date: 2022-12-20
- Inventor: Karthik Sarpatwari , Lingming Yang , Nevil N. Gajera , John Christopher M. Sancon
- 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: G11C11/406
- IPC: G11C11/406 ; G11C11/4091 ; G11C11/4074

Abstract:
The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for performing refresh operations on memory cells. A memory can include a group of memory cells and one or more additional memory cells whose data state is indicative of whether to refresh the group of memory cells. Circuitry is configured to apply a first voltage pulse to the group of memory cells to sense a data state of the memory cells of the group, apply, while the first voltage pulse is applied to the group of memory cells, a second voltage pulse having a greater magnitude than the first voltage pulse to the one or more additional memory cells to sense a data state of the one or more additional memory cells, and determine whether to perform a refresh operation on the group of memory cells based on the sensed data state of the one or more additional memory cells.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220246202A1 PERFORMING REFRESH OPERATIONS ON MEMORY CELLS Public/Granted day:2022-08-04
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