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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 09, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Charles J. Camp, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Timothy J. Fisher, Cypress, TX (US);

Aaron D. Fry, Richmond, TX (US);

Nikolas Ioannou, Zurich, CH;

Ioannis Koltsidas, Zurich, CH;

Nikolaos Papandreou, Thalwil, CH;

Thomas Parnell, Zurich, CH;

Roman A. Pletka, Uster, CH;

Charalampos Pozidis, Thalwil, CH;

Sasa Tomic, Kilchberg, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01); G11C 29/02 (2006.01); G11C 16/14 (2006.01); G11C 29/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 16/14 (2013.01); G11C 16/26 (2013.01); G11C 16/3427 (2013.01); G11C 29/021 (2013.01); G11C 29/028 (2013.01); G11C 2029/0409 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes determining, after writing data to a non-volatile memory block, one or more delta threshold voltage shift (TVS) values. One or more overall threshold voltage shift values for the data written to the non-volatile memory block are calculated, the values being a function of the one or more TVSvalues to be used when writing data to the non-volatile memory block. The overall threshold voltage shift values are stored. A base threshold voltage shift (TVS) value, the one or more TVSvalues, or both the TVSvalue and the one or more TVSvalues are re-calibrated during a background health check after a predetermined number of background health checks without calibration are performed.


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