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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2004
Luca G. Fasoli, San Jose, CA (US);
Luca G. Fasoli, San Jose, CA (US);
Matrix Semiconductor, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method of controlling a three dimensional memory is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the system is implemented as an integrated circuit including a microcontroller having a control signal output, a three-dimensional monolithic non-volatile memory having a plurality of levels of memory cells above a silicon substrate and having an input responsive to the control signal output, a counter coupled to the microcontroller, and a program memory. The counter is to step through a series of time steps defining a program pulse time interval of a first program pulse to be applied to at least one selected memory cell within the three-dimensional monolithic non-volatile memory. The program memory is accessible to the microcontroller, and the program memory includes a sequence of program instructions corresponding to a memory operation with respect to the three-dimensional monolithic non-volatile memory.