Patent classifications
G06F3/0625
Systems and methods for storing FSM state data for a power control system
A system and method for logging state data from a power system control device on a computer system is disclosed. The computer system includes a power system supplying power to the computer system. The power system has a power-up sequence having a plurality of stages. The power system control device is coupled to the power system. The power system control device includes a finite state machine circuit having states corresponding to the stages of the power-up sequence. The control device also has a write controller, a storage buffer, and a communication interface. The write controller writes the state of the finite state machine circuit in the storage buffer. An external controller is coupled to the communication interface and is operable to read the stored state data.
Optimizing power consumption of memory repair of a device
In one aspect, an apparatus includes a memory repair controller coupled to a memory. The memory repair controller may be configured to provide repair information to cause the memory to disable one or more faulty locations in the memory, and the memory repair controller can be disabled after providing the repair information.
POWER-ON READ DEMARCATION VOLTAGE OPTIMIZATION
A system comprising includes a memory device having memory cells a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is to perform operations including: determining a length of time the memory device has been powered off; and in response to determining that the length of time satisfies a threshold value: for each of multiple groups of memory cells, asserting a corresponding flag; determining, based on the length of time, one or more adjusted demarcation voltages to be used in reading a state of the multiple groups of memory cells; and storing the one or more adjusted demarcation voltages for use in performing memory operations.
Memory IC with data loopback
A memory controller component of a memory system stores memory access requests within a transaction queue until serviced so that, over time, the transaction queue alternates between occupied and empty states. The memory controller transitions the memory system to a low power mode in response to detecting the transaction queue is has remained in the empty state for a predetermined time. In the transition to the low power mode, the memory controller disables oscillation of one or more timing signals required to time data signaling operations within synchronous communication circuits of one or more attached memory devices and also disables one or more power consuming circuits within the synchronous communication circuits of the one or more memory devices.
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SORTING DISK COMMANDS ON ENERGY USED BY THE DISK COMMANDS
For each seek command of a plurality of seek commands of a hard disk drive, a correction value is determined that adjusts an access time of the seek command. The correction value includes a scaling factor that adjusts an energy variable. The scaling factor is based on a power target of the hard disk drive, and the energy variable may represent an energy used in the seek command as a time value. The seek commands are sorted in a command queue by the adjusted access times. The seek commands are executed by a controller of the hard disk drive based on the sorting within the command queue.
PERFORMANCE THROTTLING BASED ON POWER-OFF TIME
Responsive to a power-on of a memory device, an elapsed power-off time is identified based on a difference between a time at which the power-on occurred and a time at which a previous power-off of the memory device occurred. Responsive to a determination that the elapsed power-off time satisfies the elapsed time threshold criterion, a request to perform a first write operation on a memory unit of the memory device since power on is received, a performance parameter associated with the memory unit of the memory device is changed to a first parameter value that corresponds to a reduced performance level, and the write operation is performed on the memory unit of the memory device in accordance with the first parameter value that corresponds to the reduced performance level. Responsive to completion of the write operation, the performance parameter is changed to a value that corresponds to a normal performance level.
MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF
Disclosed is an operation method of a memory device which performs a self-refresh operation. The method includes receiving a deep-sleep mode enter command from a memory controller, changing a magnitude of an internal voltage of the memory device from a first voltage to a second voltage smaller than the first voltage, in response to the deep-sleep mode enter command, and entering a self-refresh mode under control of the memory controller, and the internal voltage is maintained at the second voltage during the self-refresh mode.
POWER MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES
Methods, systems, and devices for power management techniques are described. A memory system may receive a command to exit a first power mode and enter a second power mode. The first power mode may have a lower power consumption than the second power mode. The memory system may determine whether a duration of an idle period associated with the first power mode satisfies a threshold based on receiving the command to exit the first power mode. The memory system may receive another command associated with executing a flush operation and perform one or more power management operations based on receiving the command and determining that the duration satisfies the threshold.
Using per memory bank load caches for reducing power use in a system on a chip
A VPU and associated components include a min/max collector, automatic store predication functionality, a SIMD data path organization that allows for inter-lane sharing, a transposed load/store with stride parameter functionality, a load with permute and zero insertion functionality, hardware, logic, and memory layout functionality to allow for two point and two by two point lookups, and per memory bank load caching capabilities. In addition, decoupled accelerators are used to offload VPU processing tasks to increase throughput and performance, and a hardware sequencer is included in a DMA system to reduce programming complexity of the VPU and the DMA system. The DMA and VPU executes a VPU configuration mode that allows the VPU and DMA to operate without a processing controller for performing dynamic region based data movement operations.
Storage device and operating method thereof
A memory controller includes: a block manager for allocating a plurality of partial super blocks each including partial blocks in different memory blocks; and an operation controller for controlling a plurality of memory devices to perform, in parallel, a program operation of sequentially storing data in physical pages in each of the partial blocks in a partial super block selected from the plurality of partial super blocks. Each of the plurality of partial super blocks includes partial blocks in memory blocks having different numbers of physical pages having an erase state.