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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2022
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Vipul Patel, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Theodore Pekny, San Jose, CA (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods of memory operation that provide a hardware-based reset of an unresponsive memory device are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary system may comprise a semiconductor memory device having a memory array, a controller that may include a firmware component for controlling memory operations, and a reset circuit including power-up circuitry and timeout circuitry. The reset circuit may be configured to detect when the memory device is in a non-responsive state and reset the memory device without using any internal controller components potentially impacted/affected by the non-responsive state.