Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Suppression of program disturb with bit line and select gate voltage regulation
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Application No.: US15877633Application Date: 2018-01-23
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Publication No.: US10229745B2Publication Date: 2019-03-12
- Inventor: Chun Chen , Kuo-Tung Chang , Yoram Betser , Shivananda Shetty , Giovanni Mazzeo , Tio Wei Neo , Pawan Singh
- Applicant: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
- Current Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Main IPC: G11C16/10
- IPC: G11C16/10 ; G11C16/34 ; G11C16/30 ; G11C16/04 ; G11C7/04 ; G11C16/24 ; G11C16/16 ; G11C16/26

Abstract:
Techniques for suppression of program disturb in flash memory devices are described herein. In an example embodiment, an apparatus comprises a flash memory device coupled to a microprocessor. The flash memory device comprises rows and columns of memory cells, where the memory cells in each row are coupled to a source line and to a select-gate (SG) line, and the memory cells in each column are coupled to a respective bit line (BL). A control circuit in the flash memory device is configured to regulate both a first voltage, of a selected SG line, and a second voltage, of an unselected BL, independently of a power supply voltage of the flash memory device, and to adjust at least one of the first voltage and the second voltage based on a measure of an operating temperature of the flash memory device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180190361A1 Suppression of Program Disturb with Bit Line and Select Gate Voltage Regulation Public/Granted day:2018-07-05
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