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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2011
Xin Guo, San Jose, CA (US);
Kiran Pangal, Fremont, CA (US);
Yogesh B. Wakchaure, Folsom, CA (US);
Paul D. Ruby, Folsom, CA (US);
Ravi J. Kumar, Redwood City, CA (US);
Xin Guo, San Jose, CA (US);
Kiran Pangal, Fremont, CA (US);
Yogesh B. Wakchaure, Folsom, CA (US);
Paul D. Ruby, Folsom, CA (US);
Ravi J. Kumar, Redwood City, CA (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Examples are disclosed for cycling endurance extending for memory cells of a non-volatile memory array. The examples include implementing one or more endurance extending schemes based on program/erase cycle counts or a failure trigger. The one or more endurance extending schemes may include a gradual read window expansion, a gradual read window shift, an erase blank check algorithm, a dynamic soft-program or a dynamic pre-program.