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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 29, 2018
Applicant:

Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Thomas J. Sheffler, San Francisco, CA (US);

Lawrence Lai, San Jose, CA (US);

Liang Peng, San Jose, CA (US);

Bohuslav Rychlik, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G11C 7/22 (2006.01); G11C 8/10 (2006.01); G11C 7/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/023 (2013.01); G11C 7/1006 (2013.01); G11C 7/1039 (2013.01); G11C 7/22 (2013.01); G11C 8/10 (2013.01); H05K 999/99 (2013.01); G06F 2212/2024 (2013.01); G11C 2207/107 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory access command, column address and plurality of write data values are received within an integrated-circuit memory chip via external signaling links. In response to the memory access command, the integrated-circuit memory chip (i) decodes the column address to select address-specified sense amplifiers from among a plurality of sense amplifiers that constitute a sense amplifier bank, (ii) reads first data, constituted by a plurality of read data values, out of the address-specified sense amplifiers, and (iii) overwrites the first data within the address-specified sense amplifiers with second data constituted by one or more of the write data values and by one or more of the read data values.


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