Patents by Inventor Loi La

Loi La has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • MULTI-PASS SOFT PROGRAMMING
    Publication number: 20150103601
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method and computer program product embodiments for utilizing soft programming a nonvolatile memory. An embodiment operates by sequentially applying a single soft programming voltage pulse to all memory cells along each word line in the nonvolatile memory that fail soft programming verification in a first phase. This sequential application of the single soft programming voltage pulse in the first phase may repeat a predetermined number of times or until a threshold is met. Once the predetermined number of times completes, or the threshold is met, soft programming proceeds to a second phase where soft programming remains with each word line until all memory cells along the word line passes soft programming verification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Spansion LLC
    Inventors: Gulzar A. KATHAWALA, Mark W. RANDOLPH, Yi HE, Zhizheng LIU, Tio Wei NEO, Cindy SUN, Shivananda SHETTY, Phuog BANH, Richard FASTOW, Loi LA, Harry Hao KUO
  • Multi-pass soft programming
    Patent number: 8995198
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method and computer program product embodiments for utilizing soft programming a nonvolatile memory. An embodiment operates by sequentially applying a single soft programming voltage pulse to all memory cells along each word line in the nonvolatile memory that fail soft programming verification in a first phase. This sequential application of the single soft programming voltage pulse in the first phase may repeat a predetermined number of times or until a threshold is met. Once the predetermined number of times completes, or the threshold is met, soft programming proceeds to a second phase where soft programming remains with each word line until all memory cells along the word line passes soft programming verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Spansion LLC
    Inventors: Gulzar A. Kathawala, Mark W. Randolph, Yi He, Zhizheng Liu, Tio Wei Neo, Cindy Sun, Shivananda Shetty, Phuong Banh, Richard Fastow, Loi La, Harry Hao Kuo