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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:
Nov. 28, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 10, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

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

Seth A. Eichmeyer, Boise, ID (US);

Christopher G. Wieduwilt, Boise, ID (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); G06F 11/076 (2013.01); G06F 11/0772 (2013.01); G06F 11/0793 (2013.01); G06F 11/3037 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for error evaluation for a memory system are described. A memory device may be configured to monitor access errors of the memory device to evaluate a likelihood that such errors are related to a failure of the memory device itself or to a failure outside the memory device. For example, a memory device may monitor a respective quantity of errors for each of a set of banks and, if the memory device detects that multiple banks are associated with a threshold quantity of access errors, the memory device may infer the presence of a failure outside the memory device. The memory device may store an indication of such a detection, which may be used to support failure diagnosis or resolution efforts, such as refraining from replacing a memory device when access errors are more likely to be the result of a system failure.


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