US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 20 for "Smooth RTT transition" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,677, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Smooth RTT transition" was invented by Ryo Fujimaki (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for performing "smooth RTT transitions" to avoid unintended fluctuations in termination resistance (RTT) values (e.g., unexpected values during skewing). RTT control signals (e.g., RTT_PARK, RTT_WR, RTT_NOM_WR, RTT_NOM_RD) are converted from binary codes to unary codes, and resistance drivers are enabled/disabled based on the unary codes to provide corresponding termination resistance of the RTT control signals. There is n...