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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:
Sep. 29, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2019
Applicant:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Inventors:

Daniel B. Penney, Wylie, TX (US);

Harish N. Venkata, Allen, TX (US);

Guy S. Perry, Plano, TX (US);

Assignee:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/10 (2006.01); G11C 11/4096 (2006.01); G11C 11/4091 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/1006 (2013.01); G11C 7/1036 (2013.01); G11C 11/4091 (2013.01); G11C 11/4096 (2013.01); G11C 2211/4013 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to shifting data. An example apparatus comprises sensing circuitry including a sense amplifier and a compute component having a first storage location and a second storage location associated therewith. A controller is coupled to the sensing circuitry. The controller is configured to control an amount of power associated with shifting a data value stored in the first storage location to the second storage location by applying a charge sharing operation.


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