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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:
Sep. 25, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2005
Applicants:
Hendrik Hartono, San Jose, CA (US);
Aaron Yip, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Benjamin Louie, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventors:
Hendrik Hartono, San Jose, CA (US);
Aaron Yip, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Benjamin Louie, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for disabling a bad bitline for verification operations, and for determining whether a programming operation have failed, include setting a bitline disable latch for a bad bitline, and inhibiting operation of a program latch if the bitlines is excluded or if a programming operation fails.