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公开(公告)号:US11842777B2
公开(公告)日:2023-12-12
申请号:US17525712
申请日:2021-11-12
Applicant: SUNRISE MEMORY CORPORATION
Inventor: Raul Adrian Cernea
CPC classification number: G11C16/3427 , G11C16/0466 , G11C16/14 , G11C16/26
Abstract: A method is for ensuring data integrity in memory pages includes: dividing the memory pages into a predetermined number of refresh groups; and for each write operation to be performed on a selected memory page: (a) selecting one of the refresh groups; (b) reading data from the memory pages of the selected refresh group; and (d) concurrently (i) performing the write operation on the selected memory page, and (ii) writing back the data read into the memory pages of the selected refresh group.
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公开(公告)号:US11751388B2
公开(公告)日:2023-09-05
申请号:US17721247
申请日:2022-04-14
Applicant: SunRise Memory Corporation
Inventor: Eli Harari , Raul Adrian Cernea
IPC: G11C7/18 , H10B43/20 , H03K19/20 , H03K19/1776 , G11C16/04 , G11C16/08 , G11C16/24 , H01L29/786
CPC classification number: H10B43/20 , G11C7/18 , G11C16/0466 , G11C16/08 , G11C16/24 , H03K19/1776 , H03K19/20 , H01L29/78696
Abstract: A NOR string includes a number of individually addressable thin-film storage transistors sharing a bit line, with the individually addressable thin-film transistors further grouped into a predetermined number of segments. In each segment, the thin-film storage transistors of the segment share a source line segment, which is electrically isolated from other source line segments in the other segments within the NOR string. The NOR string may be formed along an active strip of semiconductor layers provided above and parallel a surface of a semiconductor substrate, with each active strip including first and second semiconductor sublayers of a first conductivity and a third semiconductor sublayer of a second conductivity, wherein the shared bit line and each source line segment are formed in the first and second semiconductor sublayers, respectively.
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公开(公告)号:US11610635B2
公开(公告)日:2023-03-21
申请号:US17370788
申请日:2021-07-08
Applicant: Sunrise Memory Corporation
Inventor: Raul Adrian Cernea
Abstract: Algorithms for fast data retrieval, low power consumption in a 3D or planar non-volatile array of memory cells, connected between an accessible drain string and a floating, not directly accessible, source string, in a NOR-logic type of architecture, are presented.
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公开(公告)号:US20220238545A1
公开(公告)日:2022-07-28
申请号:US17721247
申请日:2022-04-14
Applicant: SunRise Memory Corporation
Inventor: Eli Harari , Raul Adrian Cernea
IPC: H01L27/11578 , G11C7/18 , H03K19/20 , H03K19/1776 , G11C16/04 , G11C16/08 , G11C16/24
Abstract: A NOR string includes a number of individually addressable thin-film storage transistors sharing a bit line, with the individually addressable thin-film transistors further grouped into a predetermined number of segments. In each segment, the thin-film storage transistors of the segment share a source line segment, which is electrically isolated from other source line segments in the other segments within the NOR string. The NOR string may be formed along an active strip of semiconductor layers provided above and parallel a surface of a semiconductor substrate, with each active strip including first and second semiconductor sublayers of a first conductivity and a third semiconductor sublayer of a second conductivity, wherein the shared hit line and each source line segment are formed in the first and second semiconductor sublayers, respectively.
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公开(公告)号:US20200185404A1
公开(公告)日:2020-06-11
申请号:US16792808
申请日:2020-02-17
Applicant: Sunrise Memory Corporation
Inventor: Eli Harari , Raul Adrian Cernea
IPC: H01L27/11578 , G11C16/04 , H03K19/1776 , H03K19/20 , G11C7/18 , G11C16/24 , G11C16/08
Abstract: A NOR string includes a number of individually addressable thin-film storage transistors sharing a bit line, with the individually addressable thin-film transistors further grouped into a predetermined number of segments. In each segment, the thin-film storage transistors of the segment share a source line segment, which is electrically isolated from other source line segments in the other segments within the NOR string. The NOR string may be formed along an active strip of semiconductor layers provided above and parallel a surface of a semiconductor substrate, with each active strip including first and second semiconductor sublayers of a first conductivity and a third semiconductor sublayer of a second conductivity, wherein the shared bit line and each source line segment are formed in the first and second semiconductor sublayers, respectively.
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公开(公告)号:US12096630B2
公开(公告)日:2024-09-17
申请号:US16577469
申请日:2019-09-20
Applicant: SUNRISE MEMORY CORPORATION
Inventor: Raul Adrian Cernea , Wu-Yi Henry Chien , Eli Harari
IPC: H10B43/20 , H01L21/285 , H01L21/306 , H01L21/3213 , H01L21/768 , H01L23/522 , H01L23/528 , H01L23/532 , H10B43/30
CPC classification number: H10B43/20 , H01L21/28525 , H01L21/30604 , H01L21/32133 , H01L21/76816 , H01L21/76877 , H01L23/5226 , H01L23/5283 , H01L23/53271 , H10B43/30
Abstract: Various methods and various staircase structures formed out of the active strips of a memory structure (e.g., a memory array having a three-dimensional arrangement of NOR memory strings) above a semiconductor substrate allows efficient electrical connections to semiconductor layers within the active strips.
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公开(公告)号:US11848056B2
公开(公告)日:2023-12-19
申请号:US17529083
申请日:2021-11-17
Applicant: SUNRISE MEMORY CORPORATION
Inventor: Raul Adrian Cernea
Abstract: A semiconductor memory device is implemented as a string of storage transistors with sense amplifier connected drain terminals and floating source terminals. In some embodiments, a method in the semiconductor memory device applies a bit line control (BLC) voltage with a voltage step down to the bias device during the read operation to reduce the settling time on the bit line, thereby shortening the access time for data read out from the storage transistors. In other embodiments, a method in the semiconductor memory device including an array of strings of storage transistors uses a current from a biased but unselected bit line as the sense amplifier reference current for reading stored data from a selected bit line. In one embodiment, the sense amplifier reference current is provided to a referenced sense amplifier to generate a sense amplifier data latch signal.
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公开(公告)号:US20230195314A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-22
申请号:US18059971
申请日:2022-11-29
Applicant: SUNRISE MEMORY CORPORATION
Inventor: Masahiro Yoshihara , Tz-Yi Liu , Raul Adrian Cernea , Shay Fux , Erez Landau , Sagie Goldenberg
IPC: G06F3/06
CPC classification number: G06F3/0611 , G06F3/0659 , G06F3/0673
Abstract: A memory system including a memory device of storage transistors organized in multiple memory banks where the memory device interacts with a controller device to perform read and write operations. In some embodiments, the controller device is configured to issue to the memory device a write command and a write termination command, where the write command causing the memory device to initiate a write operation in the memory device and the write termination command causing the memory device to terminate the write operation. In one embodiment, the controller device issues a write abort command as the write termination command to terminate a write operation in progress at a certain memory bank of the memory device in order to issue a read command to read data from the same memory bank. The terminated write operation can resume after the completion of the read operation.
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公开(公告)号:US20220180943A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-09
申请号:US17529083
申请日:2021-11-17
Applicant: SUNRISE MEMORY CORPORATION
Inventor: Raul Adrian Cernea
Abstract: A semiconductor memory device is implemented as a string of storage transistors with sense amplifier connected drain terminals and floating source terminals. In some embodiments, a method in the semiconductor memory device applies a bit line control (BLC) voltage with a voltage step down to the bias device during the read operation to reduce the settling time on the bit line, thereby shortening the access time for data read out from the storage transistors. In other embodiments, a method in the semiconductor memory device including an array of strings of storage transistors uses a current from a biased but unselected bit line as the sense amplifier reference current for reading stored data from a selected bit line. In one embodiment, the sense amplifier reference current is provided to a referenced sense amplifier to generate a sense amplifier data latch signal.
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公开(公告)号:US11069696B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-20
申请号:US16509282
申请日:2019-07-11
Applicant: Sunrise Memory Corporation
Inventor: Eli Harari , Raul Adrian Cernea , George Samachisa , Wu-Yi Henry Chien
IPC: H01L27/112 , H01L27/11556 , H01L27/11582 , G11C16/04 , H01L27/12 , G11C11/56 , H01L27/06
Abstract: A thin-film storage transistor includes (a) first and second polysilicon layers of a first conductivity serving, respectively, as a source terminal and a drain terminal of the thin-film storage transistor; (b) a third polysilicon layer of a second conductivity adjacent the first and second polysilicon layers, serving as a channel region of the thin-film storage transistor; (c) a conductor serving as a gate terminal of the thin-film storage transistor; and (d) a charge-trapping region between the conductor and third polysilicon layer, wherein a fourth body layer polysilicon of the second conductivity is included to provide an alternative source of free charge careers to accelerate device operation.
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