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Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 16, 2016
Applicant:

Adesto Technologies Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Deepak Kamalanathan, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Ming Kwan, San Leandro, CA (US);

Venkatesh Gopinath, Fremont, CA (US);

John Jameson, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

Adesto Technologies Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/00 (2006.01); G11C 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 13/0097 (2013.01); G11C 13/004 (2013.01); G11C 13/0069 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of controlling a resistive switching memory cell can include: receiving a first command to be executed on the resistive switching memory cell; performing, in response to the first command, an erase operation to erase the resistive switching memory cell to an erased state; verifying the erased state of the resistive switching memory cell; performing a weak program operation to program the resistive switching memory cell to a first programmed state; and verifying the first programmed state of the resistive switching memory cell.


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