Spansion Llc.

Phuong Banh

Richard M Fastow

Mark W Randolph

Yi He

Zhizheng Liu

Shivananda Shetty

Gulzar Ahmed Kathawala

Harry Kuo

Tio Wei Neo

Cindy Sun

Loi La

Disclosed herein are system, method and computer program product embodiments for utilizing soft programming a nonvolatile memory. An embodiment operates by sequentially applying a single soft programming voltage pulse to all memory cells along each word line in the nonvolatile memory that fail soft programming verification in a first phase. This sequential application of the single soft programming voltage pulse in the first phase may repeat a predetermined number of times or until a threshold is met. Once the predetermined number of times completes, or the threshold is met, soft programming proceeds to a second phase where soft programming remains with each word line until all memory cells along the word line passes soft programming verification.

Multi-pass soft programming

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San Ramon, CA, United States of America

Phuong Banh