Patent ID: 8009478

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: memory cells coupled in a series, each of the memory cells including a gate, the gates being electrically isolated from each other; and a module to cause an application of voltages with at least three different values to gates of the memory cells during an operation to retrieve information stored in a selected memory cell of the memory cells, wherein the memory cells include a first memory cell immediately adjacent a first side of the selected memory cell and a second memory cell immediately adjacent a second side of the selected memory cell, wherein the module is to apply the voltages such that a voltage applied to the gate of each of the first and second memory cells is greater than a voltage applied to the gates of other memory cells in the series, and, wherein the module includes a circuit to apply a first voltage included in the voltages to a gate of a first memory cell of the memory cells and to apply a second voltage included in the voltages to a gate of a second memory cell of the memory cells, such that the first voltage has a value approximately ten percent greater than a value of the second voltage.