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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:
Dec. 05, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 28, 2015
Applicant:

Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Inventor:

Bruce Alexander Wilson, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/34 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G11C 16/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/5642 (2013.01); G11C 16/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory system, non-volatile solid-state memory, and a method of efficiently reading data from a flash memory array are disclosed. The disclosed memory system includes a flash memory array having a plurality of memory cells that store data therein, each of the plurality of memory cells being configured to store at least two bits per cell and being organized into pages, and a controller configured to read any bit of data from a page of the flash memory array by applying a single threshold voltage to the flash memory array. Reading data from the flash memory array with a single threshold greatly decreases the latency associated with the read operation.


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