Patents by Inventor Lung-Chi Cheng

Lung-Chi Cheng 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).

  • Publication number: 20240087644
    Abstract: A forming operation of resistive memory device is provided. The operation includes: applying a pre-forming gate voltage and a pre-forming bit line voltage to a target memory cell; performing a dense switching forming operation, wherein the dense switching forming operation includes alternately performing dense set operations and dense reset operations on the target memory cell, wherein the dense set operation includes applying a dense switching gate voltage and a dense set bit line voltage; and performing a normal set operation on the target memory cell, wherein the normal set operation includes applying a normal set gate voltage and a normal set bit line voltage to the target memory cell, the normal set gate voltage is greater than the pre-forming gate voltage and the dense switching gate voltage, and the normal set bit line voltage is less than the pre-forming bit line voltage and the dense set bit line voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Winbond Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: I-Hsien Tseng, Lung-Chi Cheng, Ju-Chieh Cheng, Jun-Yao Huang, Ping-Kun Wang
  • Publication number: 20230274782
    Abstract: A block erase method for a flash memory is provided. The block erase method is to perform block erase on a block with a predetermined block size. The block erase method includes: performing an erase verification on bytes byte-by-byte in the block when performing the block erase; checking an erase step of the byte when the byte does not pass the erase verification; when the erase step of the byte exceeds a predetermined threshold value, performing the block erase with a partitioned block smaller than the predetermined block size, and returning to an erase verification stage to perform the erase verification; and when the erase step of the bytes does not exceed the predetermined threshold value, continuing to perform the block erase with the predetermined block size, and returning to the erasure verification stage to continue to perform the erase verification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Winbond Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: Lung-Chi Cheng, Ying-Shan Kuo, Jun-Yao Huang, Ju-Chieh Cheng, Yu-Cheng Chuang
  • Patent number: 11437101
    Abstract: A resistive memory storage apparatus including a memory cell, a selecting transistor and a memory controller is provided. The memory cell outputs a writing current during a writing pulse width period. The selecting transistor is coupled to the memory cell. The memory controller is coupled to the selecting transistor and the memory cell. The memory controller is configured to apply a control voltage that gradually changes to a predetermined voltage level to a control end of the selecting transistor during a resistance transition phase of the writing pulse width period and set the control voltage to the predetermined voltage level during a filament stabilization phase after the resistance transition phase, so as to limit the writing current to a predetermined current value. In addition, an operating method for a resistive memory storage apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: Lih-Wei Lin, Lung-Chi Cheng, Ju-Chieh Cheng, Ying-Shan Kuo
  • Patent number: 11289160
    Abstract: A data writing method is provided. According to the present application, the data writing method includes steps of receiving an expected data, performing a plurality of readings on a target storage unit to obtain a plurality of read data; determining whether the plurality of read data are the same as the expected data respectively to generate a plurality of comparison results; and performing a writing operation procedure on the target storage unit according to the plurality of comparison results and the expected data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: WINBOND ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Lih-Wei Lin, Ju-Chieh Cheng, Lung-Chi Cheng, Ying-Shan Kuo, Yu-An Chen
  • Publication number: 20210335421
    Abstract: A resistive memory storage apparatus including a memory cell, a selecting transistor and a memory controller is provided. The memory cell outputs a writing current during a writing pulse width period. The selecting transistor is coupled to the memory cell. The memory controller is coupled to the selecting transistor and the memory cell. The memory controller is configured to apply a control voltage that gradually changes to a predetermined voltage level to a control end of the selecting transistor during a resistance transition phase of the writing pulse width period and set the control voltage to the predetermined voltage level during a filament stabilization phase after the resistance transition phase, so as to limit the writing current to a predetermined current value. In addition, an operating method for a resistive memory storage apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: Winbond Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: Lih-Wei Lin, Lung-Chi Cheng, Ju-Chieh Cheng, Ying-Shan Kuo
  • Publication number: 20210210139
    Abstract: A data writing method is provided. According to the present application, the data writing method includes steps of receiving an expected data, performing a plurality of readings on a target storage unit to obtain a plurality of read data; determining whether the plurality of read data are the same as the expected data respectively to generate a plurality of comparison results; and performing a writing operation procedure on the target storage unit according to the plurality of comparison results and the expected data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Winbond Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: Lih-Wei LIN, Ju-Chieh CHENG, Lung-Chi CHENG, Ying-Shan KUO, Yu-An CHEN
  • Patent number: 10978149
    Abstract: A resistive memory apparatus and an adjusting method for write-in voltage thereof are provided. The adjusting method for write-in voltage includes: selecting an under test memory cell array in a resistive memory; performing N reset operations on a plurality of memory cells of the under test memory cell array according to a reset voltage, and performing N set operations on the memory cells of the under test memory cell array according to a set voltage, wherein n is an integer greater than 1; calculating a reset time variation rate of the reset operations and a set time variation rate of the set operations; and adjusting a voltage value of one of the set voltage and the reset voltage according to the reset time variation rate and the set time variation rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ju-Chieh Cheng, Ying-Shan Kuo, Lih-Wei Lin, Lung-Chi Cheng
  • Patent number: 10783962
    Abstract: A writing method of a resistive memory storage apparatus includes: applying one of a set voltage and a reset voltage serving as a first selected voltage to a memory cell and obtaining a first read current; applying a disturbance voltage to the memory cell and obtaining a second read current; and determining whether a relationship between the first and second read currents satisfies a preset relationship, and if not, applying the other of the set voltage and the reset voltage serving as a second selected voltage to the memory cell and applying the first selected voltage to the memory cell again. A polarity of the disturbance voltage is different from that of the first selected voltage, and the absolute value of the disturbance voltage is less than that of the second selected voltage. A resistive memory storage apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: Lih-Wei Lin, Lung-Chi Cheng, Min-Yen Liu, Huan-Ming Chiang
  • Publication number: 20190074059
    Abstract: A writing method of a resistive memory storage apparatus includes: applying one of a set voltage and a reset voltage serving as a first selected voltage to a memory cell and obtaining a first read current of the memory cell; applying a disturbance voltage to the memory cell and obtaining a second read current of the memory cell; and determining whether a relationship between the first and second read currents satisfies a preset relationship, and if not, applying the other of the set voltage and the reset voltage serving as a second selected voltage to the memory cell and applying the first selected voltage to the memory cell again. A polarity of the disturbance voltage is different from that of the second selected voltage, and the absolute value of the disturbance voltage is less than that of the second selected voltage. A resistive memory storage apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Winbond Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: Lih-Wei Lin, Lung-Chi Cheng, Min-Yen Liu, Huan-Ming Chiang