Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Erase control circuit and method of non-volatile semiconductor memory device, and non-volatile semiconductor memory device
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Application No.: US16574099Application Date: 2019-09-18
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Publication No.: US11074979B2Publication Date: 2021-07-27
- Inventor: Mathias Yves Gilbert Bayle
- Applicant: Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation
- Current Assignee: Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: JCIPRNET
- Priority: JPJP2019-041682 20190307
- Main IPC: G11C16/14
- IPC: G11C16/14 ; G11C16/34 ; G11C16/32 ; G11C16/04

Abstract:
The erase voltage controlled with higher accuracy than the related art when erasing data in a non-volatile semiconductor memory device is provided. An control circuit for controlling an erase voltage includes: a slope adjustment circuit that controls a slope having a step shape by controlling a step voltage, a target voltage, and a step width of the erase voltage. The slope adjustment circuit repeatedly increases the erase voltage by the step voltage for each predetermined clock pulse control signal to the target voltage based on the step voltage and the target voltage, and outputs the clock pulse control signal to the erase voltage generation circuit by repeatedly clocking each time interval corresponding to the step width based on the step width.
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