US 11,880,291 B2
Monitoring and reporting a status of a memory device
Todd Jackson Plum, Boise, ID (US); Scott D. Van De Graaff, Boise, ID (US); Scott E. Schaefer, Boise, ID (US); Aaron P Boehm, Boise, ID (US); and Mark D. Ingram, Boise, ID (US)
Assigned to Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US)
Filed by Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/354,690.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/048,748, filed on Jul. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0012148 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 11/3037 (2013.01) [G06F 11/0772 (2013.01); G06F 11/1417 (2013.01); G06F 11/3075 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
monitoring a health status of one or more parameters of a memory device, wherein the health status is based at least in part on wear information associated with the memory device;
receiving, at a first register of the memory device and from a source external to the memory device, a configuration for reporting the health status of the memory device;
determining a parameter of the one or more parameters indicative of a level of wear of the memory device based at least in part on monitoring the health status of the one or more parameters of the memory device and the configuration for reporting the health status of the memory device; and
writing a value indicative of the parameter associated with the level of wear of the memory device to respective bit indices of a second register of the memory device that is configured to be read by the source external to the memory device, wherein the respective bit indices indicate the level of wear of the memory device.