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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2012
Kunihiro Katayama, Chigasaki, JP;
Takayuki Tamura, Yokohama, JP;
Kiyoshi Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Renesas Electronics Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
In a nonvolatile memory apparatus, a system bus receives address, command, and/or control signals. Memory cells store bits of data by shifting a threshold voltage to one of plural ranges. In writing a first page, the threshold voltage of a first memory cell remains in a first range or shifts into a second range. In writing a second page, the threshold voltage remains in the first or second voltages, or shifts into a third range from the first range or into a fourth range from the second range. Before writing the second page, the memory reads data from the first memory cell for generating the second page writing data. A shifting direction of the threshold voltage from the first to the second range is the same as a shifting direction from the first to the third range.