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- Patent Title: Background threshold voltage shifting using base and delta threshold voltage shift values in non-volatile memory
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Application No.: US15804975Application Date: 2017-11-06
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Publication No.: US10222998B2Publication Date: 2019-03-05
- Inventor: Charles J. Camp , Timothy J. Fisher , Aaron D. Fry , Nikolas Ioannou , Ioannis Koltsidas , Nikolaos Papandreou , Thomas Parnell , Roman A. Pletka , Charalampos Pozidis , Sasa Tomic
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Zilka-Kotab, P.C.
- Main IPC: G11C16/10
- IPC: G11C16/10 ; G06F3/06 ; G11C16/34 ; G11C16/26 ; G11C29/02 ; G11C16/14 ; G11C29/04

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a computer program product includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by a processing circuit to cause the processing circuit to perform a method that includes determining, after writing data to a non-volatile memory block, one or more delta threshold voltage shift (TVSΔ) values. One or more overall threshold voltage shift values is calculated for the data written to the non-volatile memory block. The one or more overall threshold voltage shift values are stored. The method also includes reading one or more TVS values from a non-volatile controller memory, and resetting a program/erase cycle count since last calibration after calibrating the one or more overall threshold voltage shift values. The one or more TVSΔ values and the program/erase cycle count since last calibration are stored to the non-volatile controller memory.
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