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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:
Jan. 24, 2017

Filed:

May. 28, 2015
Applicant:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Inventors:

Mark A. Helm, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Uday Chandrasekhar, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2006.01); H03M 11/00 (2006.01); G11C 16/28 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); H03M 13/05 (2006.01); G11C 29/52 (2006.01); H03M 13/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/28 (2013.01); G06F 11/10 (2013.01); G06F 11/1008 (2013.01); G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); G11C 16/3454 (2013.01); G11C 29/52 (2013.01); H03M 13/05 (2013.01); H03M 13/03 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and devices for data sensing are disclosed. One such method includes performing a number of successive sense operations on a number of memory cells using a number of different sensing voltages, determining a quantity of the number memory cells that change states between consecutive sense operations of the number of successive sense operations, and determining, based at least partially on the determined quantity of the number of memory cells that change states between consecutive sense operations, whether to output hard data corresponding to one of the number of successive sense operations.


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