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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:
May. 19, 2015

Filed:

May. 15, 2012
Applicants:

Benjamin Vigoda, Winchester, MA (US);

Jeffrey Bernstein, Middleton, MA (US);

Jeffrey Venuti, Somerville, MA (US);

Alexander Alexeyev, Gorham, ME (US);

Eric Nestler, Concord, MA (US);

David Reynolds, Scarborough, ME (US);

William Bradley, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);

Vladimir Zlatkovic, Belmont, MA (US);

Inventors:

Benjamin Vigoda, Winchester, MA (US);

Jeffrey Bernstein, Middleton, MA (US);

Jeffrey Venuti, Somerville, MA (US);

Alexander Alexeyev, Gorham, ME (US);

Eric Nestler, Concord, MA (US);

David Reynolds, Scarborough, ME (US);

William Bradley, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);

Vladimir Zlatkovic, Belmont, MA (US);

Assignee:

ANALOG DEVICES, INC., Norwood, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 7/00 (2006.01); G11C 7/10 (2006.01); G11C 7/16 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G11C 27/00 (2006.01); G11C 11/24 (2006.01); G11C 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 (2013.01); G11C 7/1006 (2013.01); G11C 7/16 (2013.01); G11C 11/5642 (2013.01); G11C 27/005 (2013.01); G11C 29/00 (2013.01); G11C 11/24 (2013.01); G11C 16/04 (2013.01);
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.


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