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US 2024/0176487 A1Published application
Bank to bank data transfer
AssigneeLodestar Licensing Group LLC
InventorsThanh K. Mai, Gary L. Howe, Daniel B. Penney
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Abstract
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods to transfer data between banks of memory cells. An example includes a plurality of banks of memory cells and a controller coupled to the plurality of subarrays configured to cause transfer of data between the plurality of banks of memory cells via internal data path operations.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
An apparatus, comprising:
- a memory device, comprising:
- a plurality of banks of memory cells;
- a controller coupled to the plurality of banks configured to:
- receive an instruction to transfer data between the plurality of banks;
- and
- transfer of the data between the plurality of banks of memory cells via internal data path operations that include source bank information used to identify a source bank to the read data from and destination bank information used to identify a destination bank to write the data to.
3 more elements
A system, comprising:
- a host configured to provide instructions for transferring data;
- and
- a memory device, coupled to the host, comprising:
- a plurality of banks of memory cells;
- a controller coupled to the plurality of banks and configured to:
- receive an instruction from the host to transfer data between the plurality of banks;
- and
- transfer of data between the plurality of banks of memory cells by performing a number of silent read commands that transfer data from the plurality of banks to a number of buffers and a number of silent write commands that transfer data from the number of buffers to the plurality of banks, wherein source bank information used is to identify a source bank to read data from and destination bank information is used to identify a destination bank to write data to.
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A method for operating a system, comprising:
- sending a command from a host to a memory device to transfer data between a plurality of banks of the memory device;
- and
- transferring the data from a first bank of memory cells on the memory device to a second bank of memory cells on the memory device on an internal data bus that couples the first bank to the second bank by executing the command that includes source bank information identifying a source bank to read the data from and destination bank information identifying a destination bank to write data to.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.