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Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 18, 2013
Applicant:

Adesto Technologies Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

John Ross Jameson, III, Burlingame, CA (US);

Michael A. Van Buskirk, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

Adesto Technologies Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/00 (2006.01); G11C 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 13/0002 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory device can include a plurality of memory cells each comprising at least one programmable impedance memory element; a programming circuit coupled to the memory elements and configured to apply at least one time varying pulse to memory elements to place them into one of at least two different impedance states; and a programming voltage source coupled to the programming circuit configured to generate the at least one time varying pulse; wherein the time varying pulse decreases and increases in potential while having an overall increase in one voltage polarity.


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