Apple Inc.

Anobit Technologies Ltd.

Intel Corporation

Dsp Group Limited

D.s.p.c. Technologies Ltd.

Dotan Sokolov

Ofir Shalvi

Naftali Sommer

Uri Perlmutter

Eyal Gurgi

Oren Golov

Yoav Kasorla

Barak Rotbard

Micha Anholt

Shai Winter

Ariel Maislos

Gil Semo

Zeev Cohen

Or Ordentlich

David Ben-Eli

Julian Vlaiko

Yair Schwartz

Michael Shachar

Yoav Kasoria

Doron Rainish

Alex Margulis

Udi Ben-David

Rafi Zack

Eitan Tene

Alexander Chiskis

Shlomi Cohen

Venkatesh Gangaiah

A wireless audio system that may include a first wireless transceiver that is configured to receive audio information from an audio source over a bi-directional wireless link; a second wireless transceiver that is configured to sniff audio information sent over the bi-directional wireless link; and wherein the first and second wireless transceivers are configured to share sniff enabling information, over a shared link and before an establishment of the bi-directional wireless link.

True wireless stereo system and method

A method for data storage includes storing data in a group of analog memory cells by writing respective input storage values to the memory cells in the group. After storing the data, respective output storage values are read from the analog memory cells in the group. Respective confidence levels of the output storage values are estimated, and the confidence levels are compressed. The output storage values and the compressed confidence levels are transferred from the memory cells over an interface to a memory controller.

Efficient readout from memory cells using data compression

A method for data storage includes storing first data bits in a set of multi-bit analog memory cells at a first time by programming the memory cells to assume respective first programming levels. Second data bits are stored in the set of memory cells at a second time that is later than the first time by programming the memory cells to assume respective second programming levels that depend on the first programming levels and on the second data bits. A storage strategy is selected responsively to a difference between the first and second times. The storage strategy is applied to at least one group of the data bits, selected from among the first data bits and the second data bits.

Programming schemes for multi-level analog memory cells

Methods and systems are provided for receiving by a first electronic device audio content, determining audio quality of the received audio content, which includes measuring and/or estimating quality related parameters associated with the received audio content, and communicating the quality related parameters to a second electronic device, from which the audio content was transmitted. The quality related parameters may be used to control audio related functions in the second electronic device. The audio related functions may comprise noise reduction, noise suppression, cancellation, distortion reduction, equalization, compression, enhancement and/or audio rate conversion. Determining the audio quality of the received audio content may be based on one or more noise related thresholds. The quality related parameters may be communicated to the second electronic device over a dedicated control channel setup between the devices.

Non-intrusive quality measurements for use in enhancing audio quality

A method for operating a memory includes storing data in a plurality of analog memory cells that are fabricated on a first semiconductor die by writing input storage values to a group of the analog memory cells. After storing the data, multiple output storage values are read from each of the analog memory cells in the group using respective, different threshold sets of read thresholds, thus providing multiple output sets of the output storage values corresponding respectively to the threshold sets. The multiple output sets of the output storage values are preprocessed by circuitry that is fabricated on the first semiconductor die, to produce preprocessed data. The preprocessed data is provided to a memory controller, which is fabricated on a second semiconductor die that is different from the first semiconductor die. so as to enable the memory controller to reconstruct the data responsively to the preprocessed data.

Memory device with internal signal processing unit

A method for operating a memory () includes storing data, which is encoded with an Error Correction Code (ECC), in analog memory cells () of the memory by writing respective analog input values selected from a set of nominal values to the analog memory cells. The stored data is read by performing multiple read operations that compare analog output values of the analog memory cells to different, respective read thresholds so as to produce multiple comparison results for each of the analog memory cells. At least two of the read thresholds are positioned between a pair of the nominal values that are adjacent to one another in the set of the nominal values. Soft metrics are computed responsively to the multiple comparison results. The ECC is decoded using the soft metrics, so as to extract the data stored in the analog memory cells.

Reading memory cells using multiple thresholds

A data storage system includes a plurality of non-volatile memory devices arranged in one or more sets, a main controller and one or more processors. The main controller is configured to accept commands from a host and to convert the commands into recipes. Each recipe includes a list of multiple memory operations to be performed sequentially in the non-volatile memory devices belonging to one of the sets. Each of the processors is associated with a respective set of the non-volatile memory devices, and is configured to receive one or more of the recipes from the main controller and to execute the memory operations specified in the received recipes in the non-volatile memory devices belonging to the respective set.

Hierarchical data storage system

A method for data storage includes, in a system that includes a host having a host memory and a memory controller that is separate from the host and stores data for the host in a non-volatile memory including multiple analog memory cells, storing in the host memory information items relating to respective groups of the analog memory cells of the non-volatile memory. A command that causes the memory controller to access a given group of the analog memory cells is received from the host. In response to the command, a respective information item relating to the given group of the analog memory cells is retrieved from the host memory by the memory controller, and the given group of the analog memory cells is accessed using the retrieved information item.

Use of host system resources by memory controller

A method for data storage includes defining a first programming scheme that programs a group of analog memory cells while reducing interference caused by at least one memory cell that neighbors the group, and a second programming scheme that programs the group of the analog memory cells and does not reduce all of the interference reduced by the first programming scheme. One of the first and second programming schemes is selected based on a criterion defined with respect to the analog memory cells. Data is stored in the group of the analog memory cells using the selected programming scheme.

Selective activation of programming schemes in analog memory cell arrays

A method for data storage includes accepting data for storage in a memory that includes multiple analog memory cells and supports a set of built-in programming commands. Each of the programming commands programs a respective page, selected from a group of N pages, in a subset of the memory cells. The subset of the memory cells is programmed to store M pages of the data, M&#x3e;N, by performing a sequence of the programming commands drawn only from the set.

Storage at M bits/cell density in N bits/cell analog memory cell devices, M&#x3e;N

Memory system including a controller and processors associated with memory devices

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Raanana, Israel

Dotan Sokolov