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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 25, 2013
Applicant:

Stec, Inc., Santa Ana, CA (US);

Inventors:

Aldo G. Cometti, San Diego, CA (US);

Pablo Alejandro Ziperovich, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

HGST Technologies Santa Ana, Inc., Santa Ana, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G11C 16/00 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 11/413 (2006.01); G11C 11/16 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G11C 11/5628 (2013.01); G11C 16/00 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01); G11C 11/1675 (2013.01); G11C 11/413 (2013.01); G11C 16/3454 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is an apparatus and method for providing memory cell bias information for use in memory operations. One or more memory die are selected from a group of memory die, and one or more memory blocks selected from the selected one or more memory die. A group of cells are programmed within the selected memory blocks, and one or more distributions of cell program levels associated with a group of wordlines are determined. A bias value for each wordline is then generated based on comparing one or more program levels in a distribution of program levels associated with the respective wordline with predetermined programming levels. The bias values are stored lookup table that is configured to be accessible at runtime by a memory controller for retrieval of the bias value during a program or read operation.


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