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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2020
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Nenad Miladinovic, Campbell, CA (US);
Hari Kannan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ronald Karr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
PURE STORAGE, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for read voltage levels in flash memory is provided. The method includes determining to which set of pages or blocks of a flash memory device a word line connects, according to a flash memory device architecture. The method includes determining one or more optimum read voltage levels, for one or more pages of the flash memory device that are accessed by activating the word line, according to a specified number of bits per cell and the flash memory device architecture, and using the one or more optimum read voltage levels to access further pages in the set of pages or blocks of the flash memory device to which the word line connect.