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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2024
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abhijith Prakash, Milpitas, CA (US);
Parth Amin, Fremont, CA (US);
Anubhav Khandelwal, San Jose, CA (US);
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A memory apparatus includes memory cells each connected to one of a plurality of word lines and configured to store a threshold voltage corresponding to one of a plurality of data states. The memory apparatus also includes a control means configured to identify ones of the plurality of word lines as slow word lines. The control means is also configured to ramp at least one program pulse applied to the slow word lines to a program kick voltage higher in magnitude than a program voltage for a program kick period of time during at least one program loop of a program operation.