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Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 06, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Yuan He, Boise, ID (US);

Yasuo Satoh, Tsukuba, JP;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/46 (2006.01); G11C 7/10 (2006.01); G11C 5/06 (2006.01); H03K 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/463 (2013.01); G11C 5/063 (2013.01); G11C 7/1051 (2013.01); H03K 19/0005 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an example semiconductor device, the voltage/temperature conditions of the semiconductor device and associated calibration codes of multiple instances of ZQ calibrations are pre-stored in a register array. When a pre-stored voltage/temperature condition occurs again, ZQ calibration is not performed. Instead, the associated pre-stored calibration code is retrieved from the register array and provided to the IO circuit. When a voltage/temperature condition of the semiconductor device does not match any pre-stored voltage/temperature condition in the register array, a ZQ calibration is performed. When the ZQ calibration is performed, a register in the register array is selected according to an update policy and updated by the calibration code newly provided by the ZQ calibration along with the voltage/temperature condition at the time when the ZQ calibration is performed.


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