Patent ID: 11972810
Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. The method as set forth in claim 15, wherein the plurality of pass voltages include a drain-side pass voltage and a source-side pass voltage and the method further includes the steps of:
applying the program voltage to each one of the selected ones of the plurality of word lines while applying the drain-side pass voltage to the unselected ones of the plurality of word lines located on the drain-side of the one of the selected ones of the plurality of word lines and ramping down the one of the selected ones of the plurality of word lines to the recovery voltage and the unselected ones of the plurality of word lines located on the drain-side of the one of the selected ones of the plurality of word lines to a drain-side recovery voltage at the start of the verify phase of each of the plurality of program loops; and
applying the program voltage to each one of the selected ones of the plurality of word lines while applying the source-side pass voltage to the unselected ones of the plurality of word lines located on the source-side of the one of the selected ones of the plurality of word lines and ramping down the one of the selected ones of the plurality of word lines to the recovery voltage and the unselected ones of the plurality of word lines located on the source-side of the one of the selected ones of the plurality of word lines to a source-side recovery voltage at the start of the verify phase of each of the plurality of program loops.