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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2019
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3234 (2019.01); G11C 11/4074 (2006.01); G06F 1/3296 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3278 (2013.01); G06F 1/3296 (2013.01); G11C 11/4074 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus configured to reduce power consumption of a physical (PHY) interface of a digital memory device. In some configurations, the PHY interface is configured to modulate electrical characteristics of a transmitter and/or receiver on the PHY interface according to an idle state of one or more of the digital memory device or a host computing system.