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Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2021
Applicant:

Kioxia Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Akira Katayama, Yokohama Kanagawa, JP;

Kosuke Hatsuda, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Kioxia Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/1673 (2013.01);
Abstract

A storage device includes a first interconnection, a second interconnection, a memory cell connected between the first and second interconnections and including a variable resistance element and a switching element that is connected in series to the variable resistance element, and a control circuit configured to exercise control of a read operation to read data stored in the memory cell. The control circuit exercises control in such a manner as to set the first interconnection which has been charged with a first voltage and the second interconnection which has been charged with a second voltage into floating states, to set the switching element into an on-state by discharging the second interconnection set into the floating state to thereby increase a voltage applied to the memory cell, and to read the data stored in the memory cell in a state in which the switching element is set into the on-state.


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