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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
May. 09, 2024
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
Apparatuses and techniques for implementing aspects of a time-varying threshold for usage-based disturbance mitigation. In an example aspect, usage-based disturbance circuitry of a memory device utilizes a threshold that varies over time for detecting conditions associated with usage-based disturbance. By utilizing the time-varying threshold, the usage-based disturbance circuitry can reduce a probability of a waterfall event causing a denial-of-service (DOS) situation. In particular, the time-varying threshold can spread out the refreshing of rows over a longer time period. This enables the memory device to have sufficient resources to service other memory requests while also mitigating usage-based disturbance. In example implementations, the threshold is at least partially randomized, which can make it challenging for a malicious actor to identify and overcome the usage-based disturbance mitigation techniques. Also, techniques for generating the time-varying threshold can be implemented without appreciably increasing a size or cost of the memory device.