Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electrically addressed non-volatile memory maintentance
- Patent Title (中): 电位非易失性记忆维持
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Application No.: US13047798Application Date: 2011-03-15
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Publication No.: US08374029B2Publication Date: 2013-02-12
- Inventor: Peggy Jean Liska , Aaron Jabari Russell , Anthony Scott Vaughan
- Applicant: Peggy Jean Liska , Aaron Jabari Russell , Anthony Scott Vaughan
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Robert D. Marshall, Jr.; Wade James Brady, III; Frederick J. Telecky, Jr.
- Main IPC: G11C11/34
- IPC: G11C11/34

Abstract:
An electrically addressed non-volatile memory is maintained by measuring a voltage threshold for each selected memory cell in the electrically addressed non-volatile memory. The voltage threshold is a voltage around which a controllable voltage signal applied to a control gate of a selected memory cell produces a change in value read from the selected memory cell. A measured voltage threshold distribution of the measured voltage thresholds is generated for the selected memory cells. The voltage threshold distribution is analyzed to identify memory cells having greater probabilities of read errors, for example. In response to the analysis, an operating parameter that affects the memory cells identified as having greater probabilities of read errors is selectively changed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120236648A1 ELECTRICALLY ADDRESSED NON-VOLATILE MEMORY MAINTENTANCE Public/Granted day:2012-09-20
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