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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 1999
Filed:
May. 15, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mitsuru Sekiguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36518522 ; 36518529 ; 3651853 ; 365218 ;
Abstract
In a method of initializing a flash EEPROM, a pre-programming operation of a predetermined data is first performed in a plurality of memory cells of a memory cell array and then an erasing operation is performed to the plurality of memory cells. Then, a verifying operation of whether the erasing operation is correctly performed is performed. During an initializing operation composed of the pre-programming operation, the erasing operation and the verifying operation, electrons or holes trapped in a tunnel oxide film are pulled out.