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US 8,711,628 B2Granted
Use of emerging non-volatile memory elements with flash memory
AssigneeMicron Technology, Inc.
InventorRamin Ghodsi
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Abstract
Memory devices and methods of operating memory devices are provided, such as those that involve a memory architecture that replaces typical static and/or dynamic components with emerging non-volatile memory (NV) elements. The emerging NV memory elements can replace conventional latches, can serve as a high speed interface between a flash memory array and external devices and can also be used as high performance cache memory for a flash memory array.
Claims14
A memory device comprising:
- a plurality of transistor-based non-volatile memory elements arranged in a first plurality of memory blocks;
- a plurality of emerging non-volatile memory elements arranged in at least one second memory block which is configured to operate as a redundant memory block for a bad memory block of the first plurality of memory blocks.
A memory device comprising:
- a plurality of transistor-based non-volatile memory elements arranged in a first plurality of memory blocks;
- a plurality of emerging non-volatile memory elements arranged in at least one second memory block;
- wherein data to be stored in a first memory block of the first plurality of memory blocks is first stored in a memory block of the second plurality of memory blocks where the data is adjusted before being stored in the first memory block of the first plurality of memory blocks.
A memory device comprising:
- a plurality of transistor-based non-volatile memory elements arranged in a first plurality of memory blocks;
- a plurality of emerging non-volatile memory elements arranged in at least one second memory block;
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- at least one memory block for receiving and storing data from at least one second memory block and supplying the received and stored data to a memory block in the first plurality of memory blocks.
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