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Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 07, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Vipul Patel, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Theodore T. Pekny, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/02 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01); G11C 16/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

Memories, and systems incorporating similar memories, as well as their operation, where the memory might include an array of memory cells, a status register, and a controller configured to access the array of memory cells. The controller may further be configured to perform a plurality of read operations on the array of memory cells in response to a read command associated with a plurality of addresses, store a particular value to the status register in response to data of a particular read operation corresponding to a particular address of the plurality of addresses being available for readout by an external device, and store a different value to the status register in response to data of a different read operation corresponding to a different address of the plurality of addresses being available for readout by the external device.


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