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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2019
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Alex Bazarsky, Holon, IL;
Idan Alrod, Kfar Saba, IL;
Eran Sharon, Rishon Lezion, IL;
Ariel Navon, Revava, IL;
Chris Petti, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G11C 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 13/0069 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G11C 13/0004 (2013.01); G11C 13/0061 (2013.01);
Abstract
A controller for a phase change memory forms a dedicated burst write partition in the phase change memory and initializes memory cells of the dedicated burst write partition to a SET state. Programming of selected memory cells in the dedicated burst write partition is carried out using only RESET pulses.