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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2010
Filed:
May. 15, 2006
Applicants:
Erwin E. Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Ebrahim Abedifard, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Frederick T. Jaffin, Gilroy, CA (US);
Uday Chandrasekhar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Erwin E. Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Ebrahim Abedifard, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Frederick T. Jaffin, Gilroy, CA (US);
Uday Chandrasekhar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Micron Technology Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus that provides the ability to control programming pulses having different widths and/or voltages in a flash memory device. The widths and/or voltage levels of programming pulses are set to achieve programming of all memory cells of an array using a minimum number of programming pulses.