Micron Technology Incorporated

Bryan D Butler

Luca Porzio

Roberto Izzi

Marco Onorato

Andrea Vigilante

Sean L Manion

Massimo Zucchinali

Praveen Gurrala

John Todd Elson

Alfredo Palazzo

Methods, systems, and devices for filler symbols for data bursts are described. A memory device may insert filler symbols into a stream of data symbols. For example, after transmitting a last data symbol of a data burst, a device may insert one or more filler symbols to maintain an active data burst. The device may randomize the transmission of filler symbols within the data burst. In some cases, the device may randomly select filler symbols from a variety of symbol types, therefore randomizing which one of the symbols is transmitted. In some other cases, the device may randomize the representation of filler symbols within an encoding scheme.

Filler symbols for data bursts

Methods, systems, and devices for latency reduction of boot procedures for memory systems are described. A memory system may receive a first command to perform a first reset of one or more components as part of a first phase of a boot procedure of a host system. The memory system may initiate an initialization process of a second phase of the boot procedure upon determining whether the value of a flag has been set from a first value to a second value. Upon completing the initialization process, the flag may be set to the first value. Parameters corresponding to the characteristics of the memory system may be communicated to the host system based on receiving a second command. The memory system may perform a configuration operation of a logical-to-physical mapping concurrently with communicating the parameters with the host system.

Latency reduction of boot procedures for memory systems

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