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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2016
Applicant:
Sandisk Technologies Llc, Plano, TX (US);
Inventor:
Nima Mokhlesi, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC, Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/24 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/5628 (2013.01); G11C 11/5642 (2013.01); G11C 16/0466 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01); G11C 16/24 (2013.01); G11C 16/3459 (2013.01);
Abstract
A non-volatile storage system dedicates a subset of blocks to be used for shorting source lines to bit lines at periodic positions along the bit lines during certain memory operations.