Patent · US Active

Multi-level signaling in memory with wide system interface

US10686634B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Micron Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

Timothy M. Hollis · Meridian, US
Markus Balb · Munich, DE
Ralf Ebert · Munich, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 8, 2019
Grant date	Jun 16, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 8, 2039

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L25/4921
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques are provided herein to increase a rate of data transfer across a large number of channels in a memory device using multi-level signaling. Such multi-level signaling may be configured to increase a data transfer rate without increasing the frequency of data transfer and/or a transmit power of the communicated data. An example of multi-level signaling scheme may be pulse amplitude modulation (PAM). Each unique symbol of the multi-level signal may be configured to represent a plurality of bits of data.

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