Patent ID: 11972801
Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A non-volatile semiconductor memory device, comprising:
non-volatile storage elements; and
one or more control circuits in communication with the non-volatile storage elements, wherein the one or more control circuits are configured to:
during a program iteration of a program operation:
determine whether a programming voltage VPGM level of the program iteration exceeds a threshold programming voltage level;
in response to the determination, identify a set of voltage levels to apply to a source line connected to a set of the non-volatile storage elements; and
perform the program iteration of the program operation on the set of non-volatile storage elements, the program iteration including applying the set of voltage levels to the source line and applying the programming voltage VPGM to a selected word line.