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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2017
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Timothy Canepa, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for managing a non-volatile memory (NVM). In some embodiments, a memory module has a memory module electronics (MME) circuit configured to program data to and read data from solid-state non-volatile memory cells of the NVM. A controller is adapted to communicate commands and data to the MME circuit via an intervening data bus. The controller operates to reset the MME circuit by issuing a reset command to the MME circuit over the data bus, activating a decoupling circuit coupled between the data bus and a reference line at a reference voltage level to remove capacitance from the data bus resulting from the reset command, and subsequently sensing a voltage on the data bus. In some cases, multiple MME circuits and NVMs may be arranged on a plurality of flash dies which are concurrently reset by the controller.