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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2008
Applicants:
Shozo Kawabata, Inuyama, JP;
Sooyong Park, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Shozo Kawabata, Inuyama, JP;
Sooyong Park, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Spansion LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The control method includes a step of varying driving ability of a selector transistor which selects a diffusion layer in a selected memory cell and a diffusion layer of at least one non-selected memory cell which adjoins to the selected memory cell when the selected memory cell makes transition from a memory cell at one end to a memory cell at other end within a memory block.