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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2006
Applicants:
Yan LI, Milpitas, CA (US);
Loc Tu, San Jose, CA (US);
Charles Moana Hook, Patterson, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
SanDisk Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G11C 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
High performance non-volatile memory devices have the programming voltages trimmed for individual types of memory pages and word lines. A group of word lines within each erasable block of memory are tested in successive program loops to minimize the problem of incurring excessive number of erase/program cycles. An optimum programming voltage for a given type of memory pages is derived from statistical results of a sample of similar of memory pages.