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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2008
Jun Wan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jeffrey W Lutze, San Jose, CA (US);
Chan-sui Pang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
SanDisk Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
Compensation voltage(s) are applied to a non-volatile memory system during erase operations to equalize the erase behavior of memory cells. Compensation voltages can compensate for voltages capacitively coupled to memory cells of a NAND string from other memory cells and/or select gates. A compensation voltage can be applied to one or more memory cells to substantially normalize the erase behavior of the memory cells. A compensation voltage can be applied to end memory cells of a NAND string to equalize their erase behavior with interior memory cells of the NAND string. A compensation voltage can also be applied to interior memory cells to equalize their erase behavior with end memory cells. Additionally, a compensation voltage can be applied to one or more select gates of a NAND string to compensate for voltages coupled to one or more memory cells from the select gate(s). Various compensation voltages can be used.