Healing cells in a memory device
US6115291A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 29, 1998 |
| Grant date | Sep 5, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 29, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG11C16/3404
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Healing cells in a memory device. According to one embodiment of the present invention a heal operation is performed on a plurality of cells in the memory device, a number of subsets of the cells that are leaking is counted where a subset of cells that is leaking includes a cell that conducts more than a predetermined amount of current when not being activated, and another heal operation is performed on the cells based on the number of subsets of the cells that are leaking.
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