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US 11,443,802 · App. 16/924,958 · Granted Sep 13, 2022

Adaptive memory management and control circuitry

Inventors: Eric Hall (Mount Vernon, WA); Doug Smith (Mesa, AZ); Nicholas T. Hendrickson (Burnsville, MN); Jack Guedj (Los Altos Hills, CA)
Assignee: NUMEM INC.
G11C13/004G11C13/0069
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Patent No.
US 11,443,802
App. No.
16/924,958
Granted
Sep 13, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

An adaptive memory management and control circuitry (AMMC) to provide extended test, performance, and power optimizing capabilities for a resistive memory is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a resistive memory comprises a resistive memory array and an Adaptive Memory Management and Control circuitry (AMMC) that is coupled to the resistive memory array. The AMMC is configured with extended test, reliability, performance and power optimizing capabilities for the resistive memory.

Claims (20)

1. Resistive memory comprising:

a resistive memory array; and

an adaptive Memory Management and Control circuitry (AMMC) coupled to the resistive memory array, wherein the AMMC is configured with extended test, reliability, performance or power optimizing capabilities, wherein the AMMC is configured with the performance optimizing capabilities to optimize memory speed with reduced memory endurance or to optimize memory endurance with reduced memory speed.

2. The resistive memory of claim 1 , wherein the AMMC is integrated with the resistive memory array.

3. The resistive memory of claim 1 , wherein the AMMC is configured with performance optimizing capabilities and power optimizing capabilities.

4. The resistive memory of claim 1 , further comprising:

a memory mapped interface to map adaptive memory management and control features to a memory mapped region of the resistive memory.

5. The resistive memory of claim 1 , wherein the AMMC includes built-in self test circuitry to test functionality of the resistive memory array that is extended to additional testing functions.

6. The resistive memory of claim 1 , wherein the resistive memory array comprises non-volatile random access memory (RAM) including one or more of magnetic RAM (MRAM), resistive RAM (RRAM), phase-change RAM (PCRAM), or Ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM).

7. A memory subsystem comprising:

a smart compute memory circuitry;

a resistive memory array coupled to the smart compute memory circuitry; and

an Adaptive Memory Management and Control circuitry (AMMC) coupled to the resistive memory array, wherein the AMMC is configured with extended test and performance optimizing capabilities, wherein the smart compute memory circuitry comprises an integrated processor with power-management control and memory management control.

8. The memory subsystem of claim 7 , wherein the smart compute memory circuitry comprises an integrated processor with power-management control and memory management control to augment memory management and control of the AMMC.

9. The memory subsystem of claim 7 , wherein the integrated processor is configured with programmable memory management and control to optimize parameters with different modes including a first mode to manipulate data to encrypt or decrypt the data as needed, a second mode for writing or reading at different speeds to optimize power and performance over a temperature range, a third mode to generate a custom sequence of read and write operations, and a fourth mode to generate a conditional read or write operation based on output from a logic function.

10. The memory subsystem of claim 7 , wherein the AMMC comprises an integrated temperature control circuitry to sense temperature, wherein the AMMC is configured to adaptively change power and performance over a temperature range based on sensed temperature data of the resistive memory array using the integrated temperature control circuitry.

11. The memory subsystem of claim 7 , wherein the AMMC includes built-in self test (BIST) circuitry to test functionality of the resistive memory array.

12. The memory subsystem of claim 9 , wherein the integrated processor is configured to execute test code for the BIST circuitry with the test code being stored in a first region of the resistive memory array while a second region of the resistive memory array is being tested.

13. The memory subsystem of claim 11 , wherein the AMMC to adaptively enable optimization of power by reading and writing to a first region of the resistive memory array while operating a second region of the resistive memory array in a low power mode.

14. The computing system of claim 7 , wherein the resistive memory array comprises non-volatile random access memory (RAM) including one or more of magnetic RAM (MRAM), resistive RAM (RRAM), phase-change RAM (PCRAM), or Ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM).

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 9, 2020
From: HALL, ERIC; SMITH, DOUG; HENDRICKSON, NICHOLAS T.; GUEDJ, JACK
To: NUMEM INC.
Reel/Frame 053173/0659 →
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