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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2014
Applicant:
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mee-Choo Ong, Penang, MY;
Wei-Kent Ong, Penang, MY;
Ogiwara Yuusuke, Tokyo, JP;
Sie-Wei Henry Lau, Penang, MY;
Assignee:
CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments for improving a read margin in non-volatile semiconductor memory device. An embodiment includes measuring an erase-time of a memory block in a memory device and associating an indicator from the plurality of indicators for the memory block. The indicator is saved and later retrieved during a read operation.