Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Access operations in capacitive sense NAND memory
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Application No.: US17861502Application Date: 2022-07-11
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Publication No.: US11657880B2Publication Date: 2023-05-23
- Inventor: Yoshiaki Fukuzumi , Jun Fujiki , Shuji Tanaka , Masashi Yoshida , Masanobu Saito , Yoshihiko Kamata
- Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Applicant Address: US ID Boise
- Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US ID Boise
- Agency: Dicke, Billig & Czaja, PLLC
- Main IPC: G11C7/00
- IPC: G11C7/00 ; G11C16/26 ; G11C16/04 ; G11C16/10 ; G11C11/56 ; H01L27/11582 ; H01L27/11519 ; H01L27/11565 ; H01L27/11556

Abstract:
Memory might include a plurality of series-connected non-volatile memory cells, a plurality of series-connected first field-effect transistors connected in series with the plurality of series-connected non-volatile memory cells, and a second field-effect transistor, wherein the channel of the second field-effect transistor is capacitively coupled to channels of the plurality of series-connected first field-effect transistors. The memory might further include a controller configured to cause the memory to selectively activate a selected non-volatile memory cell, activate each remaining non-volatile memory cell, increase a voltage level of the respective channel of each first field-effect transistor, selectively discharge the voltage level of the respective channel of each first field-effect transistor through the selected non-volatile memory cell, and determine whether the second field-effect transistor is activated in response to a remaining voltage level of the respective channel of each first field-effect transistor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220351785A1 ACCESS OPERATIONS IN CAPACITIVE SENSE NAND MEMORY Public/Granted day:2022-11-03
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