Patents by Inventor Shantanu R. Rajwade

Shantanu R. Rajwade 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: 20170186497
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to predictive Count Fail Byte (CFBYTE) for non-volatile memory are described. In one embodiment, logic determines a number of memory cells of the non-volatile memory that would pass or fail verification in a current program loop. The logic determines the number of the memory cells based at least in part on information from a previous program loop. The previous program loop is executed prior to the current program loop. The logic causes inhibition of one or more verification pulses to be issued in the current program loop based on comparison of the information from the previous program loop and a threshold value. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shantanu R. Rajwade, Pranav Kalavade
  • Publication number: 20170131904
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for performing concurrent memory access operations for multiple memory planes are disclosed herein. An example method may include receiving first and second command and address pairs associated with first and second plane, respectively, of a memory. The method may further include, responsive to receiving the first and second command and address pairs, providing a first and second read voltages based on first and second page type determined from the first and second command and address pair. The method may further include configuring a first GAL decoder circuit to provide one of the first read voltage or a pass voltage on each GAL of a first GAL bus. The method may further include configuring a second GAL decoder circuit to provide one of the second read level voltage signal or the pass voltage signal on each GAL of a second GAL bus coupled to the second memory plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: SHANTANU R. RAJWADE, PRANAV KALAVADE, TORU TANZAWA
  • Publication number: 20170117049
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for identifying a target sub-block of NAND strings to be partially or wholly erased in memory and triggering a leakage current condition in one or more target select gate drain-side (SGD) devices associated with the target sub-block. Additionally, the leakage current condition may be inhibited in one or more remaining SGD devices associated with remaining sub-blocks of NAND strings in the memory. In one example, triggering the leakage current condition in the one or more target SGD devices includes setting a gate voltage of the one or more target SGD devices to a value that generates a reverse voltage that exceeds a threshold corresponding to the leakage current condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shantanu R. Rajwade, Akira Goda, Pranav Kalavade, Krishna K. Parat, Hiroyuki Sanda
  • Publication number: 20160372207
    Abstract: The inhibit voltage is a voltage applied to wordlines adjacent to a program wordline having a memory cell to write during the program operation. The inhibit voltage for a program operation can be ramped up during the program pulse. Instead of applying a constant high inhibit voltage that results in the initial boosted channel potential reducing drastically due to leakage, a system can start the inhibit voltage lower and ramp the inhibit voltage up during the program pulse. The ramping up can be a continuous ramp or in finite discrete steps during the program pulse. Such ramping of inhibit voltage can provide better tradeoff between program disturb and inhibit disturb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Shantanu R. Rajwade, Pranav Kalavade, Neal R. Mielke, Krishna K. Parat, Shyam Sunder Raghunathan
  • Patent number: 9418752
    Abstract: The inhibit voltage is a voltage applied to wordlines adjacent to a program wordline having a memory cell to write during the program operation. The inhibit voltage for a program operation can be ramped up during the program pulse. Instead of applying a constant high inhibit voltage that results in the initial boosted channel potential reducing drastically due to leakage, a system can start the inhibit voltage lower and ramp the inhibit voltage up during the program pulse. The ramping up can be a continuous ramp or in finite discrete steps during the program pulse. Such ramping of inhibit voltage can provide better tradeoff between program disturb and inhibit disturb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shantanu R Rajwade, Pranav Kalavade, Neal R Mielke, Krishna K Parat, Shyam Sunder Raghunathan
  • Publication number: 20150279476
    Abstract: The inhibit voltage is a voltage applied to wordlines adjacent to a program wordline having a memory cell to write during the program operation. The inhibit voltage for a program operation can be ramped up during the program pulse. Instead of applying a constant high inhibit voltage that results in the initial boosted channel potential reducing drastically due to leakage, a system can start the inhibit voltage lower and ramp the inhibit voltage up during the program pulse. The ramping up can be a continuous ramp or in finite discrete steps during the program pulse. Such ramping of inhibit voltage can provide better tradeoff between program disturb and inhibit disturb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Shantanu R. Rajwade, Pranav Kalavade, Neal R. Mielke, Krishna K. Parat, Shyam Sunder Raghunathan