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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2023
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Kalyan Chakravarthy Kavalipurapu, Telangana, IN;
Tomoko Ogura Iwasaki, San Jose, CA (US);
Erwin E. Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Hong-Yan Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Yunfei Xu, San Jose, CA (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
A processing device in a memory system connects a first data block of the memory device to a second data block of the memory device to generate a combined data block comprising a first plurality of sub-blocks of the first data block and a second plurality of sub-blocks of the second data block, wherein the connecting includes: for each wordline of a first plurality of wordlines of the first data block, creating a wordline connection short between the respective wordline of the first data block and a corresponding wordline of a second plurality of wordlines of the second data block, wherein the first plurality of wordlines and the second plurality of wordlines comprise data wordlines; and driving a first data wordline of the first data block and a second wordline of the second data block using a single string driver of the memory device.