Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Non-volatile semiconductor memory with high reliability and data erasing method thereof
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Application No.: US14729066Application Date: 2015-06-03
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Publication No.: US09715935B2Publication Date: 2017-07-25
- Inventor: Riichiro Shirota
- Applicant: Winbond Electronics Corp.
- Applicant Address: TW Taichung
- Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corp.
- Current Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Taichung
- Agency: Jianq Chyun IP Office
- Priority: JP2014-204065 20141002
- Main IPC: G11C11/34
- IPC: G11C11/34 ; G11C16/04 ; G11C16/14 ; G11C16/34 ; G11C11/56 ; G11C16/16

Abstract:
A non-volatile semiconductor memory apparatus and a data erasing method thereof are provided to suppress deterioration in reliability due to data rewriting. An erasing method of a flash memory is provided, which includes the following steps. A control gate is maintained at 0V, a high-voltage erase pulse is applied to a P well, such that electrons is emitted from a floating gate to the P well. Then, the control gate is again maintained, and a weak erase pulse with a voltage lower than the erase pulse is applied to the P well.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160099064A1 NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY WITH HIGH RELIABILITY AND DATA ERASING METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2016-04-07
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