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Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025

Filed:

Jul. 11, 2023
Applicant:

Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);

Inventors:

Xiang Yang, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Wei Cao, Fremont, CA (US);

Jiacen Guo, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01);
Abstract

A storage device is disclosed herein. The storage device comprises a non-volatile memory, where the non-volatile memory includes a block of 3N wordlines partitioned into a plurality of sub-blocks. The plurality of sub-blocks include an upper sub-block of a first subset of the block of 3N wordlines, a lower sub-block of a second subset of the block of 3N wordlines, and a middle sub-block of a third subset of the block of 3N wordlines. Further, the storage device comprises control circuitry coupled to the block of 3N wordlines and configured to: perform a program operation in a normal order programming sequence on the upper sub-block; perform a program operation in a reverse order programming sequence on the lower sub-block; and perform a program operation in the reverse order programming sequence on the middle sub-block.


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