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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:
Oct. 24, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 15, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Timothy B. Cowles, Boise, ID (US);

Jiyun Li, Boise, ID (US);

Beau D. Barry, Boise, ID (US);

Matthew D. Jenkinson, Boise, ID (US);

Nathaniel J. Meier, Boise, ID (US);

Michael A. Shore, Boise, ID (US);

Adam J. Grenzebach, Boise, ID (US);

Dennis G. Montierth, Meridian, ID (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/401 (2006.01); G11C 11/406 (2006.01); G11C 11/408 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/40611 (2013.01); G11C 11/4085 (2013.01); G11C 11/4087 (2013.01); G11C 11/40618 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus may include a refresh control circuit with multiple timing circuits. The timing circuits may be used to control steal rates, e.g., the rate of refresh time slots dedicated to healing victim word lines of row hammers. The timing circuits may be controlled to allow independent adjustment of the steal rates for different victim word lines. Thus, different victim word lines may be refreshed at different rates and the different rates may be independent of one another.


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