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Non-volatile semiconductor memory device and memory system using the same

US6967892B2 · kind B2 · utility

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102Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMar 19, 2004
Grant dateNov 22, 2005
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Expiry dateMar 19, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F2212/2022
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The time required for the program verify and erase verify operations can be shortened. The change of threshold values of memory cells can be suppressed even if the write and erase operations are executed repetitively. After the program and erase operations, whether the operations were properly executed can be judged simultaneously for all bit lines basing upon a change, after the pre-charge, of the potential at each bit line, without changing the column address. In the data rewrite oepration, the rewrite operation is not effected for a memory cell with the data once properly written, by changing the data in the data register.

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