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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2008
Applicant:
Yoo Nam Jeon, Kyeongki-do, KR;
Inventor:
Yoo Nam Jeon, Kyeongki-do, KR;
Assignee:
Hynix Semiconductor Inc., Icheon-si, Kyoungki-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An erase method and a soft programming method of a non-volatile memory device includes performing an erase operation on a memory cell block; applying a pass voltage to a memory cell adjacent to a select transistor of the memory cell block; applying a soft program voltage to the remaining memory cells of the memory cell block; and performing a soft program operation.