HK1011453A1 - Sensing schemes for flash memory with multilevel cells - Google Patents

Sensing schemes for flash memory with multilevel cells

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HK1011453A1
HK1011453A1 HK98112482A HK98112482A HK1011453A1 HK 1011453 A1 HK1011453 A1 HK 1011453A1 HK 98112482 A HK98112482 A HK 98112482A HK 98112482 A HK98112482 A HK 98112482A HK 1011453 A1 HK1011453 A1 HK 1011453A1
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flash memory
sensing schemes
multilevel cells
multilevel
cells
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Mark E Bauer
Sanjay Talreja
Albert Fazio
Gregory Atwood
Johnny Javanifard
Kevin W Frary
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Intel Corp
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11C—STATIC STORES
    • G11C11/00—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor
    • G11C11/56—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor using storage elements with more than two stable states represented by steps, e.g. of voltage, current, phase, frequency
    • G11C11/5621—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor using storage elements with more than two stable states represented by steps, e.g. of voltage, current, phase, frequency using charge storage in a floating gate
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11C—STATIC STORES
    • G11C11/00—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor
    • G11C11/56—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor using storage elements with more than two stable states represented by steps, e.g. of voltage, current, phase, frequency
    • G11C11/5621—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor using storage elements with more than two stable states represented by steps, e.g. of voltage, current, phase, frequency using charge storage in a floating gate
    • G11C11/5642—Sensing or reading circuits; Data output circuits
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11C—STATIC STORES
    • G11C2211/00—Indexing scheme relating to digital stores characterized by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor
    • G11C2211/56—Indexing scheme relating to G11C11/56 and sub-groups for features not covered by these groups
    • G11C2211/563—Multilevel memory reading aspects
    • G11C2211/5632—Multilevel reading using successive approximation

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