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Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Prashant S. Damle, Portland, OR (US);

Frank T. Hady, Portland, OR (US);

Paul D. Ruby, Folsom, CA (US);

Kiran Pangal, Fremont, CA (US);

Sowmiya Jayachandran, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/16 (2006.01); G11C 11/406 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/406 (2013.01); G11C 16/3431 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an embodiment, a memory controller may determine that one or more neighboring memory cells associated with a target memory cell in a memory device are to be refreshed. The controller may generate a command associated with refreshing the one or more neighboring memory cells. The controller may transfer the command from the memory controller to the memory device containing the target memory cell. The command may direct the memory device to refresh the neighboring memory cells and/or return one or more addresses associated with the neighboring memory cells.


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