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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2023
Applicant:
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/16 (2006.01); G11C 16/08 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/16 (2013.01); G11C 16/08 (2013.01); G11C 16/3445 (2013.01);
Abstract
The adaptive erase scheme includes erasing the memory cells of a selected memory block in at least one erase loop. During the at least one erase loop, simultaneously, an erase voltage is applied to a plurality of channels in the selected memory block, a first bias voltage is applied to the plurality of word lines of the first sub-block, and a second bias voltage is applied to the plurality of word lines of the second sub-block. The first bias voltage is different than the second bias voltage so that the memory cells of the first and second sub-blocks are erased at different speeds.