Program cycle skip

USRE46348E1 · kind E1 · reissue

Assignee

• Sandisk Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Gopinath Balakrishnan · Santa Clara, US
• Luca Fasoli · Campbell, US
• Tz-Yi Liu · Cupertino, US
• Yuheng Zhang · Shanghai, CN
• Yan Li · Milpitas, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 31, 2014
• Grant date: Mar 21, 2017
• Expiry date: Mar 31, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

A non-volatile storage system includes technology for skipping programming cycles while programming a page (or other unit) of data. While programming a current subset of the page (or other unit) of data, the system will evaluate whether the next subsets of the page (or other unit) of data should be programmed into non-volatile storage elements or skipped. Subsets of the page (or other unit) of data that should not be skipped are programmed into non-volatile storage elements. Some embodiments include transferring the appropriate data to temporary latches/registers, in preparation for programming, concurrently with the evaluation of whether to program or skip the programming.