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Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2023
Applicant:

Rambus Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Steven C. Woo, Saratoga, CA (US);

Taeksang Song, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Rambus Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

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

Refresh management commands are issued to a memory device in order to cause the refresh of rows in the vicinity of one or more rows being 'hammered.' These refresh management commands are each associated with respective row addresses that indicates the row(s) to be refreshed in order to mitigate the likelihood of data being corrupted by “row hammer.” In an embodiment, the refresh management commands are issued in response to a varying number of activate (ACT) commands having been issued since the last refresh management command. The row selected for a given refresh management command may be selected based on rows that have recently been activated. The selection may be based on “pools” of recently activated rows where these pools are of unequal size. The selection from a given pool may be based on algorithmic and/or random techniques.


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