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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2008
Applicants:
Qiang Tang, Cupertino, CA (US);
BO Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chih-hsin Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system includes an input that receives a control signal and a program module that initializes a nonvolatile multilevel memory cell based on the control signal. The program module initializes the nonvolatile multilevel memory cell by programming the nonvolatile multilevel memory cell to one of S states of the nonvolatile multilevel memory cell, where S is an integer greater than 1. The one of the S states is different than a lowest one of the S states.