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Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025

Filed:

Dec. 08, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Sheyang Ning, San Jose, CA (US);

Lawrence Celso Miranda, San Jose, CA (US);

Zhengyi Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/16 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/102 (2013.01); G11C 16/0433 (2013.01); G11C 16/16 (2013.01); G11C 16/3459 (2013.01);
Abstract

Control logic in a memory device causes a programming pulse of a set of programming pulses associated with a programming algorithm to be applied to a selected wordline associated with a set of memory cells to be programmed to a target voltage level representing a programming level. Voltage levels of the selected wordline and one or more unselected wordlines of the memory array are discharged to approximately a ground voltage level and a bitline voltage level is applied to a bitline corresponding to the programming level. The selected wordline and a set of unselected wordlines are charged to approximately a pass voltage level followed by the discharge of the selected wordline to a reverse bias level to establish an erase voltage level on the set of memory cells. The control logic further performs a program verify operation corresponding to the programming level associated with the set of memory cells.


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