Patent ID: 11967358
Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A method comprising:
generating a periodic bias temperature instability (BTI) signal;
determining if a memory is in an unclocked mode;
passing the periodic BTI signal to a clock input buffer if the memory is in the unclocked mode;
generating a BTI pulse signal based on the periodic BTI signal with a BTI logic circuit if the memory is not in an unclocked mode;
gating a clock signal to a clock path based on the BTI pulse signal;
synchronizing the periodic BTI signal to the clock signal to generate a synchronized BTI signal, wherein the BTI pulse signal is based on the synchronized BTI signal; and
counting activations of the synchronized BTI signal and providing an intermediate BTI signal when the count reaches a threshold wherein the BTI pulse signal is based on the intermediate BTI signal.