US 7,626,867 B2 · Method for accessing memory by way of step-increasing threshold voltage

Abstract

A method for accessing memory is provided. The memory includes many multi-level cells each having at least a storage capable of storing 2n bits, n is a positive integer. The method for accessing memory includes the following steps: Firstly, threshold voltages of the storage are defined into 2n level respectively, wherein each of the 2n level corresponds to a storage status of n bits, and most significant bits of the storage statuses which level 0 to level 2n/2−1 correspond to are different from most significant bits of the storage statuses which level 2n/2 to level 2n−1 correspond to. Next, a target data is divided into n portions and the divided target data is written into n temporary memories respectively. Then, n bits of the target data are written into the multi-level cell. Each of the n bits data is collected from each of the n temporary memories.

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A method for accessing a memory, wherein the memory comprises a plurality of memory cells, the distribution of threshold voltages at each memory cell comprises level 0˜level 3 from low to high in order, the method for accessing memory comprises:

receiving at least one piece of data;
boosting the threshold voltages of the memory cells targeted to the level 1, the level 2 and the level 3 from the threshold voltages corresponding to the level 0 to the threshold voltages corresponding to the level 1;
boosting the threshold voltages of the memory cells targeted to the level 2 and the level 3 from the threshold voltages corresponding to the level 1 to the threshold voltages corresponding to the level 2;
and
boosting the threshold voltages of the memory cells targeted to the level 3 from the threshold voltages corresponding to the level 2 to the threshold voltages corresponding to the level 3.

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Method for accessing memory by way of step-increasing threshold voltage

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