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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2018
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Pin-Chou Chiang, San Jose, CA (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
Methods of operating a memory, and memory configured to perform similar methods, may include applying a first plurality of programming pulses to control gates of a plurality of memory cells during a particular programming operation and applying a second plurality of programming pulses to the control gates of the plurality of memory cells during a subsequent programming operation, wherein the first plurality of programming pulses have a particular slope, and wherein the second plurality of programming pulses have a different slope less than the particular slope. Methods of configuring a memory may include characterizing a read window budget for a programming operation of the memory as a function of a programming step voltage for a plurality of memory cell ages.