CROSS-POINT ARRAY REFRESH SCHEME

CROSS-POINT ARRAY REFRESH SCHEME

Technology is disclosed herein for refreshing threshold switching selectors in programmable resistance memory cells in cross-point memory arrays. The Vt of the threshold switching selector may drift over time. The memory system resets the Vt of the threshold switching selectors with a selector refre...

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Hauptverfasser: Franklin, Nathan, Tran, Michael Nicolas Albert, Grobis, Michael K, Parkinson, Ward
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng
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CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
INFORMATION STORAGE
PHYSICS
STATIC STORES
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Zusammenfassung:Technology is disclosed herein for refreshing threshold switching selectors in programmable resistance memory cells in cross-point memory arrays. The Vt of the threshold switching selector may drift over time. The memory system resets the Vt of the threshold switching selectors with a selector refresh operation and uses a separate data refresh operation to refresh data in programmable resistance memory elements. The data refresh operation itself may also refresh the selector. However, the threshold switching selector refresh operation is faster than the data refresh operation. Moreover, the selector refresh operation consumes much less power and/or current then the data refresh operation. The selector refresh operation may thus be performed at a higher rate than the data refresh operation.