Healing cells in a memory device

Details Healing cells in a memory device Healing cells in a memory device

1998-12-29

2000-09-05

Nguyen, Tan T.

Static information storage and retrieval

Floating gate

Particular biasing

36518509, 36518522, G11C 1600

Patent

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061152919

ABSTRACT:
Healing cells in a memory device. According to one embodiment of the present invention a heal operation is performed on a plurality of cells in the memory device, a number of subsets of the cells that are leaking is counted where a subset of cells that is leaking includes a cell that conducts more than a predetermined amount of current when not being activated, and another heal operation is performed on the cells based on the number of subsets of the cells that are leaking.

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