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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2023
Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd., Wuhan, CN;
Jason Guo, Wuhan, CN;
YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Wuhan, CN;
Abstract
A memory device includes memory cells arranged in rows and columns, each memory cell configured to store n-bit of data, where n is a whole number larger than two, and a periphery circuit coupled to the memory cells and configured to program selected memory cells according to n logic pages of current programming data. The periphery circuit includes page buffers, and each page buffer includes latches. The periphery circuit is configured to store the n logic pages of the current programming data in the latches for programming the selected memory cells, release one or more of the latches, by discarding one or more of the n logic pages of the current programming data correspondingly, before the programming the selected memory cells according to the n logic pages of the current programming data is completed, and store one of n logic pages of next programming data in one or more of the latches before the programming the selected memory cells according to the n logic pages of the current programming data is completed.