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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2008
Applicant:
Moo-sung Kim, Yongin-si, KR;
Inventor:
Moo-Sung Kim, Yongin-si, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Provided is a program method of a multi-bit flash memory device. The program method includes correspondingly programming multi-bit data into selected memory cells through pluralities of programming loops. In each programming loop, an increment of a programming voltage applied to the selected memory cells is variable in accordance with a result of program-verification to each of data states with the multi-bit data and the program-verification for the data state corresponding to program-pass is skipped if the result of the program-verification to the data state is passed.