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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:
Dec. 31, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Ferdinando Bedeschi, Biassono, IT;

Umberto Di Vincenzo, Capriate San Gervasio, IT;

Riccardo Muzzetto, Arcore, IT;

Angelo Visconti, Appiano Gentile, IT;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/06 (2006.01); G11C 7/14 (2006.01); G11C 11/22 (2006.01); G11C 11/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/221 (2013.01); G11C 7/06 (2013.01); G11C 11/2273 (2013.01); G11C 7/14 (2013.01); G11C 11/24 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for read operations based on a dynamic reference are described. A memory device may include a set of memory cells each associated with a capacitive circuit including a first and second capacitor. After receiving a read command, the memory device may couple each capacitive circuit with a respective memory cell (e.g., to transfer a charge stored by each respective memory cell to a capacitive circuit) and may couple the second capacitor of each capacitive circuit to a reference voltage bus. Thus, a reference voltage on the reference voltage bus may be based on an average charge across the second capacitors of each capacitive circuit. The memory device may then compare a charge stored by the first and second capacitors of each capacitive circuit with the reference voltage bus and may output a set of values stored by the set of memory cells based on the comparing.


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