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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
May. 22, 2014
Applicant:
Spansion Llc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/34 (2006.01); G11C 16/28 (2006.01); G11C 8/10 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/28 (2013.01); G11C 8/10 (2013.01); G11C 11/5642 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is a non-volatile memory (NVM) device including an array of NVM cells segmented into at least a first sector and a second sector and at least one sensing circuit to sense a state of a target NVM cell in the first sector using a reference current of the second sector received from at least a dynamic reference cell.