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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:
May. 17, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 24, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Nikolaos Papandreou, Thalwil, CH;

Charalampos Pozidis, Thalwil, CH;

Roman Alexander Pletka, Uster, CH;

Sasa Tomic, Kilchberg, CH;

Nikolas Ioannou, Zurich, CH;

Radu Ioan Stoica, Zurich, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/0882 (2016.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G11C 11/409 (2006.01); G06F 12/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0882 (2013.01); G06F 11/076 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/0646 (2013.01); G11C 11/409 (2013.01); G11C 2207/2254 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, is for calibrating read voltages for a block of memory. The computer-implemented method includes: determining a calibration read mode of the block, and using the calibration read mode to determine whether pages in the block should be read using full page read operations. In response to determining that the pages in the block should not be read using full page read operations, a current value of a partial page read indicator for the block is determined. The block is further calibrated by reading only a portion of each page in the block, where the current value of the partial page read indicator determines which portion of each respective page in the block is read. Moreover, the current value of the partial page read indicator is incremented.


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