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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:
Jul. 30, 2013

Filed:

Aug. 12, 2011
Applicants:

Kang-yong Kim, Boise, ID (US);

Jacob Robert Anderson, Meridian, ID (US);

Huy Vo, Boise, ID (US);

Inventors:

Kang-Yong Kim, Boise, ID (US);

Jacob Robert Anderson, Meridian, ID (US);

Huy Vo, Boise, ID (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Apparatuses, master-slave detect circuits, memories, and methods are disclosed. One such method includes performing a master detect phase during which a memory unit in a memory group is determined to be a master memory unit, determining at each memory unit its location relative to other memory units, and determining at each memory unit its location in the memory group based on a total number of slave memory units and its location relative to other memory units.


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