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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2024
Applicant:
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Inventors:
Chengqing Hu, Milpitas, CA (US);
Henry Chin, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/34 (2006.01); G11C 7/04 (2006.01); G11C 7/10 (2006.01); G11C 29/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/52 (2013.01); G11C 7/04 (2013.01); G11C 7/1066 (2013.01); G11C 7/1069 (2013.01);
Abstract
Control circuits configured to connect to a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells are configured to perform a soft-bit read of the plurality of nonvolatile memory cells by sensing the plurality of nonvolatile memory cells for a sense-time. The sense-time is obtained by adding a soft-read offset time to a hard-read sense time. The soft-read offset time is dependent on a temperature measurement value such that different soft-read offset times are applied for different temperature measurement values.