• Patent Title: NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND ERASING METHOD THEREOF
  • Application No.: US15140509
    Application Date: 2016-04-28
  • Publication No.: US20170133094A1
    Publication Date: 2017-05-11
  • Inventor: Pin-Yao Wang
  • Applicant: Winbond Electronics Corp.
  • Priority: JP2015-220506 20151110
  • Main IPC: G11C16/16
  • IPC: G11C16/16 G11C16/04
NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND ERASING METHOD THEREOF
Abstract:
A non-volatile semiconductor memory device achieving low power consumption and erasing method thereof is provided. The flash memory of the present invention includes a memory array formed with NAND type strings. The memory array includes a plurality of global blocks, one global block includes a plurality of blocks, and one block includes a plurality of NAND type strings. When the block of the selected global block is erased and the next block is in adjacent relationship, electric charge accumulated in one of P-wells is discharged to another one of the P-wells, and then the next selected block is erased. Thus, the electric charge is shared between the adjacent P-wells to achieve low power consumption.
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