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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:
Dec. 10, 2024

Filed:

Feb. 02, 2022
Applicant:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Inventors:

Koichi Kawai, Yokohama, JP;

Yoshihiko Kamata, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/24 (2006.01); G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/26 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01); G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 16/24 (2013.01); G11C 16/3459 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory device includes a sense amplifier (SA) latch coupled to a sense node. A dynamic latch (DL) is connected to the SA latch and coupled to sense node. A sense line includes the sense node and is selectively connected to the SA latch, the DL, and a bit line that is coupled to a memory cell string. Control logic is coupled to the SA latch and the DL, and to: cause a pre-program verify voltage to boost the sense node; and, in response to detecting a high bit value stored in SA latch, cause a voltage to turn on set transistor(s) of DL so that a first bias voltage or a second bias voltage is stored at a latch transistor. The first bias voltage is useable for slow programming of a selected memory cell and the second bias voltage is useable for fast programming of the selected memory cell.


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