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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2016
Applicant:
Arm Ltd., Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Lucian Shifren, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Campbell Aitken, San Jose, CA (US);
Vikas Chandra, Fremont, CA (US);
Bal S. Sandhu, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
ARM Ltd., Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/00 (2006.01); G11C 7/00 (2006.01); G11C 13/00 (2006.01); G11C 17/08 (2006.01); G11C 17/16 (2006.01); G11C 17/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 (2013.01); G11C 13/0007 (2013.01); G11C 13/0069 (2013.01); G11C 17/08 (2013.01); G11C 17/16 (2013.01); G11C 17/18 (2013.01); G11C 2013/009 (2013.01); G11C 2013/0078 (2013.01); G11C 2213/15 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus including a Correlated Electron Switch (CES) element and a programing circuit is provided. The programing circuit provides a programing signal to the CES element to program the CES element to an impedance state of multiple impedance states when a number of times the CES element has been programed is less than a threshold.