Screening for Reference Cells in a Memory
AssigneeSpansion LLC
InventorsZhizheng Liu, Cindy Sun, He Yi, Gulzar Kathawala
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Abstract
Selecting an array from among a plurality of arrays in a memory as a reference array. An exemplary method includes evaluating memory cells within the reference array to select a first reference cell associated with a first operation of the memory, and repeating the evaluating and the selecting to select a second reference cell from within the reference array, the second reference cell being associated with a second operation of the memory.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- selecting an array from among a plurality of arrays in a memory as a reference array;
- evaluating memory cells within the reference array to select a first reference cell associated with a first operation of the memory;
- and
- repeating the evaluating to select a second reference cell from within the reference array, the second reference cell being associated with a second operation of the memory.
A system, comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- enable selection of an array from among a plurality of arrays in the memory as a reference array;
- enable evaluation of memory cells within the reference array to select a first reference cell associated with a first operation of the memory;
- and
- enable repetition of the evaluation to select a second reference cell from within the reference array, the second reference cell being associated with a second operation of the memory.
A tangible computer-readable device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising:
- selecting an array from among a plurality of arrays in a memory as a reference array;
- evaluating memory cells within the reference array to select a first reference cell associated with a first operation of the memory;
- and
- repeating the evaluating to select a second reference cell from within the reference array, the second reference cell being associated with a second operation of the memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.