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US 9,805,771 B2Granted
Determining a state of a cell structure
AssigneeInfineon Technologies AG
InventorsUlrich Loibl, Thomas Kern
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Abstract
A method is suggested for determining a state of a cell structure, wherein the cell structure includes several memory cells, the method includes: (i) detecting a first condition in a predetermined number of memory cells; and (ii) determining the state of the cell structure by assigning a second condition to the memory cells that do not show the first condition.
Claims18
A method for determining a state of a cell structure, wherein the cell structure comprises several memory cells, comprising:
- detecting a first condition in a predetermined number of memory cells of the cell structure and stopping a race condition in the time domain in response to the first condition detection;
- assuming a second, different condition in the remaining cells of the cell structure where the first condition is not detected when the race condition was stopped;
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- determining the state of the cell structure by assigning the second condition to the memory cells that do not show the first condition.
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A device, comprising:
- a memory comprising at least one cell structure, wherein the cell structure comprises several memory cells;
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- a processing unit configured to:
- detect a first condition in a predetermined number of memory cells of the at least one cell structure and stop a race condition in the time domain in response to the first condition detection;
- assume a second, different condition in the remaining memory cells of the at least one cell structure where the first condition is not detected when the race condition was stopped;
- and
- determine the state of the cell structure by assigning the second condition to the memory cells that do not show the first condition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.