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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2018
Applicant:
Winbond Electronics Corp., Taichung, TW;
Inventors:
Lih-Wei Lin, Taichung, TW;
Tsung-Huan Tsai, Taichung, TW;
Chi-Shun Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Seow Fong Lim, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Winbond Electronics Corp., Taichung, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/00 (2006.01); G11C 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 13/004 (2013.01); G11C 13/0004 (2013.01); G11C 13/0033 (2013.01); G11C 13/0064 (2013.01); G11C 13/0069 (2013.01); G11C 13/0097 (2013.01);
Abstract
An operating method of a resistive memory element includes: performing a thermal step on the resistive memory element; performing a set and reset cycle operation on the resistive memory element to increase a read margin of the resistive memory element after a thermal step; and determining whether the resistive memory element passes a read margin verification.