BALANCING PEAK POWER WITH PROGRAMMING SPEED IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY

    公开(公告)号:US20230410911A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-21

    申请号:US17825321

    申请日:2022-05-26

    摘要: Technology is disclosed herein for a memory system that balances peak Icc with programming speed. A memory system applies voltages to respective word lines during a verify operation that balances peak Icc with programming speed. The voltages for which the ramp rate is controlled include a read pass voltage applied to unselected word lines and a spike voltage applied to the selected word line at the beginning of the verify. The ramp rate of the voltages is slow enough to keep the peak Icc during verify to a target peak Icc regardless of which word line is selected for verify. However, the ramp rate of the voltages to the word lines during verify is fast enough to make use of the target peak Icc in order achieve faster programming. Therefore, the impact on programming time is minimized while staying withing the allowed peak Icc.

    QUICK PASS WRITE PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES IN A MEMORY DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20230307072A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-28

    申请号:US17701365

    申请日:2022-03-22

    IPC分类号: G11C16/34 G11C16/04 G11C16/10

    摘要: The memory device includes a controller that is configured to program the memory cells of a selected word line in a plurality of program-verify iterations. During a verify portion at least one of the program-verify iterations, the controller determines a threshold voltage of at least one memory cell relative to a first verify low voltage VL1, a second verify low voltage VL2, and a verify high voltage VH associated with a data state being programmed. The controller also maintains a count of program-verify iterations since the at least one memory cell passed a verify high voltage of a previously programmed data state or discharges a sense node through a channel including the at least one memory cell and compares a discharge time to predetermined sense times associated with the first and second verify low voltages and with the verify high voltage.

    NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WITH DATA REFRESH
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230187000A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-15

    申请号:US17549431

    申请日:2021-12-13

    摘要: A memory system identifies memory cells connected to a common word line that have had their threshold voltage unintentionally drift lower than programmed by determining whether memory cells meet two criteria: (1) the memory cells have threshold voltages within an offset of a read compare voltage of a data state; and (2) adjacent memory cells (connected to word lines that are adjacent to the common word line) are in one or more low data states. For those memory cells meeting the two criteria, the memory system performs some amount of programming on the memory cells to refresh the data stored in those memory cells to be as originally intended.

    PROGRAM DEPENDENT BIASING OF UNSELECTED SUB-BLOCKS

    公开(公告)号:US20230076245A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-09

    申请号:US17469016

    申请日:2021-09-08

    摘要: An apparatus includes a control circuit configured to connect to first word lines of a first vertical sub-block and second word lines of a second vertical sub-block. The first vertical sub-block and the second vertical sub-block include memory cells connected in series in NAND strings, each NAND string including memory cells coupled to the first word lines in series with memory cells connected to the second word lines. The control circuit is configured to program or sense memory cells along a selected first word line of the first vertical sub-block while applying a first voltage to second word lines that are connected to programmed memory cells and applying a second voltage to second word lines that are connected to unprogrammed memory cells.

    NONVOLATILE MEMORY WITH EFFICIENT LOOK-AHEAD READ

    公开(公告)号:US20220359017A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-10

    申请号:US17307396

    申请日:2021-05-04

    摘要: An apparatus includes one or more control circuits configured to connect to a plurality of non-volatile memory cells through a plurality of word lines. The one or more control circuits are configured to, for each target word line of a plurality of target word lines to be read, select either a first neighboring word line or a second neighboring word line as a selected neighboring word line according to whether non-volatile memory cells of the first neighboring word line are in an erased condition. The one or more control circuits are further configured to determine a read voltage to read non-volatile memory cells of a corresponding target word line according to an amount of charge in non-volatile memory cells of the selected neighboring word line.