US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on March 25 for "Output driving and input on-die termination mechanism capable of supporting different requirements of different flash memory specification standards" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,087, issued on March 25, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Output driving and input on-die termination mechanism capable of supporting different requirements of different flash memory specification standards" was invented by Zih-Yang Wong (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input/output (I/O) interface circuit, disposed within a flash memory controller and to be coupled to a flash memory externally coupled to the flash memory controller through an I/O signal port of the flash memory controller, includes a transmission and on-die termination circuit operating as either an output driving sta...