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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2004
Applicants:
Bruno Leconte, Rousset, FR;
Paola Cavaleri, Rousset, FR;
Sébastien Zink, Aix en Provence, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics S.A., Montrouge, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for checking and refreshing a floating-gate transistor in the erased state, comprising the steps of applying a positive erase voltage to a control gate of the floating-gate transistor, and selectively applying a positive erase voltage to the drain of the floating-gate transistor, by means of a programming latch for example. Application to checking and refreshing memory pages in a Flash memory.