Using temperature sensors with a memory device

• Main Authors: SEROFF, NICHOLAS C, WAKRAT, NIR JACOB, FAI, ANTHONY
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 11.12.2016
• Subjects: INFORMATION STORAGE; MEASURING; MEASURING QUANTITY OF HEAT; MEASURING TEMPERATURE; PHYSICS; STATIC STORES; TESTING; THERMALLY-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

In one implementation, a system (100) and method for performing memory operations includes receiving, at a memory device, a request to read data from one or more non-volatile memory cells; and retrieving stored temperature information associated with the non-volatile memory cells obtained from one or more temperature sensors (144a), wherein the temperature information is associated with a temperature at approximately at a time when the data was written to the non-volatile memory cells. The method can further include reading, by the memory device, the data from the non-volatile memory cells. The method can also include processing the read data based on, at least, the retrieved temperature information; and providing the processed data.