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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2012
Applicant:
Seiichi Aritome, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventor:
Seiichi Aritome, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Assignee:
Hynix Semiconductor Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/06 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/0483 (2013.01); G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 16/3409 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for operating a non-volatile memory device includes performing an erase operation onto a memory block including a plurality of memory cells, and performing a first soft program operation onto all the memory cells of a string, after the erase operation, grouping word lines of the string into a plurality of word line groups, and performing a second soft program operation onto memory cells coupled with the word lines of each word line group.