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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2000
Janet S. Y. Wang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Narbeh Derhacobian, Belmont, CA (US);
Daniel Sobek, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of erasing a memory cell that includes a first region and a second region with a channel therebetween and a gate above the channel, and a charge trapping region that contains a first amount of charge. The method includes: applying a voltage across the gate and the first region in accordance with a coarse erase sequence of voltages so that a portion of the first amount of charge is removed from the charge trapping region; and applying a voltage across the gate and the first region in accordance with a fine erase sequence of voltages so that a portion of the first amount of charge is removed from the charge trapping region.