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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2015
Applicant:
Intellectual Ventures I Llc, Wilmington, DE (US);
Inventor:
Robert J. Proebsting, Sonora, CA (US);
Assignee:
INTELLECTUAL VENTURES I LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/40 (2006.01); G11C 11/406 (2006.01); G11C 7/06 (2006.01); G11C 7/12 (2006.01); G11C 7/18 (2006.01); G11C 7/22 (2006.01); G11C 8/08 (2006.01); G11C 11/4076 (2006.01); G11C 11/4091 (2006.01); H01L 27/108 (2006.01); G11C 11/408 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/40618 (2013.01); G11C 7/065 (2013.01); G11C 7/12 (2013.01); G11C 7/18 (2013.01); G11C 7/22 (2013.01); G11C 8/08 (2013.01); G11C 11/406 (2013.01); G11C 11/4076 (2013.01); G11C 11/4087 (2013.01); G11C 11/4091 (2013.01); H01L 27/10897 (2013.01); G11C 2207/104 (2013.01); G11C 2207/229 (2013.01); H01L 27/10891 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus and system associated with memory are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, an apparatus may include first circuitry to determine a number of queued pending refresh requests for a memory bank based on a comparison of a count from a refresh-request counter to a count from a refresh-address counter; and second circuitry to set a refresh flag in response to a determination that the number of queued pending refresh requests exceeds a predetermined number. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.