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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2009
Benjamin Vigoda, Winchester, MA (US);
Eric Nestler, Concord, MA (US);
Jeffrey Bernstein, Middleton, MA (US);
David Reynolds, Scarborough, ME (US);
Alexander Alexeyev, Gorham, ME (US);
Jeffrey Venuti, Somerville, MA (US);
William Bradley, Somerville, MA (US);
Vladimir Zlatkovic, Belmont, MA (US);
Benjamin Vigoda, Winchester, MA (US);
Eric Nestler, Concord, MA (US);
Jeffrey Bernstein, Middleton, MA (US);
David Reynolds, Scarborough, ME (US);
Alexander Alexeyev, Gorham, ME (US);
Jeffrey Venuti, Somerville, MA (US);
William Bradley, Somerville, MA (US);
Vladimir Zlatkovic, Belmont, MA (US);
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Abstract
A storage device includes a storage array having a group of storage elements. Each storage element can written to a discrete set of physical states. A read circuit selects one or more storage elements and generates, for each selected storage element, an analog signal representative of the physical state of the selected storage element. A signal processing circuit processes the analog signal to generate a plurality of outputs, with each output representing a degree of an association of the selected storage element with a different subset of one or more of the discrete set of physical states.