Non-volatile memory device with threshold voltage control function
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsKenji Misumi, Makoto Kojima
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AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsKenji Misumi, Makoto Kojima
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Even when the number of rewrite operations varies among erase unit areas, the number of rewrite operations is improved for all of the erase unit areas. A flash EEPROM 100 comprises a trimming value storing area 130 of storing a trimming value corresponding to each erase unit area 120 included in a memory cell array 110. When an erase operation and a write operation are performed with respect to a certain erase unit area 120, a regulator circuit 150 converts a voltage boosted by a booster circuit 140 to a level corresponding to the trimming value for the erase unit area 120. When a read determination circuit 170 detects an abnormality as the number of rewrite operations is increased, the trimming value is updated to a value which causes the regulator circuit 150 to increase the output voltage.
An electrically erasable and programmable non-volatile memory device comprising:
The non-volatile memory device according to 6, where, every time the output regulating value stored in the output regulating value storing section is updated, the control circuit performs a write operation after an erase operation with respect to the output regulating value storing section.
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