Line termination methods
View Patent ↗Methods for termination of signal lines within a memory system include appointing a particular memory device of a plurality of memory devices to act as a termination device during a memory device operation on a memory device of the plurality of memory devices corresponding to a particular address of the memory system, wherein appointing the particular memory device to act as a termination device comprises storing termination information in the particular memory device corresponding to the particular address.
1. A method of operating a memory system comprising a plurality of memory devices, the method comprising:
appointing a particular memory device of the plurality of memory devices to act as a termination device during a memory device operation on a memory device of the plurality of memory devices corresponding to a particular address of the memory system, comprising storing termination information, corresponding to the particular address, in the particular memory device; and
in response to subsequently receiving the particular address at the particular memory, adjusting an input impedance of a node of the particular memory device responsive to the stored termination information.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein storing the termination information in the particular memory device further comprises storing address information corresponding to a plurality of addresses of the memory system including the particular address, and storing a termination value associated with the address information.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein storing the address information corresponding to the plurality of addresses of the memory system comprises storing the address information corresponding to a range of addresses of the memory system.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein storing the termination information in the particular memory device further comprises storing address information corresponding to a plurality of addresses of the memory system including the particular address, and storing a termination value associated with each address of the plurality of addresses.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein storing the termination information in the particular memory device further comprises storing the particular address and storing a termination value associated with the particular address.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
appointing the particular memory device to act as a termination device during a memory device operation on a memory device of the plurality of memory devices corresponding to a different address of the memory system;
wherein appointing the particular memory device to act as a termination device during a memory device operation on the memory device corresponding to the different address comprises storing termination information, corresponding to the different address, in the particular memory device.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein appointing the particular memory device to act as a termination device during a memory device operation on the memory device corresponding to particular address comprises appointing one or more memory packages of a plurality of memory packages of the particular memory device to act as termination devices during a memory device operation on the memory device corresponding to the particular address, and wherein appointing the one or more memory packages of the plurality of memory packages to act as termination devices during a memory device operation on the memory device corresponding to the particular address of the memory system comprises storing termination information corresponding to the particular address to each of the one or more memory packages.