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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. 09, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 02, 2016
Applicant:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Hachem Yassine, Bristol, GB;

Justin Coon, Bristol, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G11C 16/26 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is provided a memory device comprising a plurality of memory cells and a controller configured to receive data to be stored in a set of memory cells and map a first portion of the data to a selection of memory cells to be programmed from the set of memory cells, wherein the number of cells to be programmed k is less than number of cells in the set n. The controller is further configured to map a second portion of the data to a plurality of voltage levels to be programmed into the memory cells to be programmed and store the first and second portions of the data in the set of memory cells by programming each memory cell of the selection of memory cells to be programmed to a respective voltage level of the plurality of voltage levels.


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