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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2021
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Violante Moschiano, Avezzano, IT;
Tecla Ghilardi, Trescore B., IT;
Tommaso Vali, Sezze, IT;
Emilio Camerlenghi, Bergamo, IT;
William C. Filipiak, Boise, ID (US);
Andrea D'Alessandro, L'Aquila, IT;
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
Memories having a controller configured, during a pre-charge portion of a read operation, to apply a sequence of increasing voltage levels concurrently to each access line of a plurality of access lines, wherein each voltage level of the sequence of increasing voltage levels is higher than any previous voltage level of the sequence of increasing voltage levels and lower than any subsequent voltage level of the sequence of increasing voltage levels, and determine a particular voltage level of the sequence of increasing voltage levels corresponding to a point at which all memory cells of the plurality of strings of series-connected memory cells are first deemed to be activated while applying the sequence of increasing voltage levels.