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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2014
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Inventors:
Si-Hwan Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;
Sang-Yong Yoon, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/3404 (2013.01); G11C 11/5628 (2013.01); G11C 11/5642 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01); G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 16/3459 (2013.01); G11C 2211/5641 (2013.01); G11C 2211/5644 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of operating a nonvolatile memory device by programming pages using a N-bit programming mode until a threshold voltage distribution shift for an un-programmed page in the same memory block is determined, and thereafter programming the un-programmed page using a M-bit programming mode, where M is less than N.