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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2017
Applicant:
Sandisk Technologies Llc, Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
SanDisk Technologies LLC, Addison, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/44 (2006.01); H03K 23/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/44 (2013.01); H03K 23/40 (2013.01);
Abstract
Apparatuses and techniques for counting 0 or 1 bits in a set of bits using both serial and parallel processes. The counting process includes a hierarchy in which the count from different parallel processes at one level in the hierarchy are passed to a smaller number of different parallel processes at a lower level in the hierarchy. A final count is obtained by an accumulator below the lowest level of the hierarchy. The position and configuration of the circuits can be set to equalize a number of circuits which process the different bits, so that a maximum delay relative to the accumulator is equalized.