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Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 26, 2015
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Shantanu R. Rajwade, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Akira Goda, Boise, ID (US);

Pranav Kalavade, San Jose, CA (US);

Krishna K. Parat, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Hiroyuki Sanda, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/16 (2006.01); G11C 16/08 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/16 (2013.01); G11C 16/0441 (2013.01); G11C 16/0458 (2013.01); G11C 16/0466 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01); G11C 16/08 (2013.01); G11C 16/3427 (2013.01); G11C 16/3477 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for identifying a target sub-block of NAND strings to be partially or wholly erased in memory and triggering a leakage current condition in one or more target select gate drain-side (SGD) devices associated with the target sub-block. Additionally, the leakage current condition may be inhibited in one or more remaining SGD devices associated with remaining sub-blocks of NAND strings in the memory. In one example, triggering the leakage current condition in the one or more target SGD devices includes setting a gate voltage of the one or more target SGD devices to a value that generates a reverse voltage that exceeds a threshold corresponding to the leakage current condition.


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