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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2007
Applicant:
Minoru Yamashita, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Minoru Yamashita, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Spansion LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A nonvolatile memory device that responds to a decrease in electric charge stored in memory cells attributed to the charge loss phenomenon occurring during program operation by adjusting the level of a program verify operation according to the degree of the charge loss so that the program operation can be performed with little (if any) interruption.