Sony Corporation

Sony Electronics Inc

Integrated Silicon Solution Incorporated

Kookhwan Kwon

Patrick Chuang

Robert Haig

Lyn R Zastrow

Chih-Chiang Tseng

Jong Hun Park

A memory device incorporates a serial data bus coupled to a serial bus control circuit to provide access to error correction event notification information and error correction function configuration information. In some embodiments, the serial bus control circuit is in communication with a set of registers storing error correction event information and error correction function configuration information. The serial data bus enables access to the error correction control functions and to the error correction event notification information without interfering with and independent of the normal memory operation of the memory device.

Serial bus event notification in a memory device

A combined input and termination circuit comprises a fixed portion of impedance and a programmable portion of impedance. The fixed portion is able to be fixed in a driver mode and a termination mode. The programmable portion is able to be configured to have a desired impedance in a driver mode or a termination mode while maintaining minimum associated capacitance.

Efficient method for implementing programmable impedance output drivers and programmable input on die termination on a bi-directional data bus

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San Ramon, CA, United States of America

Kookhwan Kwon