Temperature dependant flash memory erase transient simulation (Part I)
We present a detailed and accurate physics based transient simulation for modeling flash memory erasing at ambient and non-ambient temperatures. Typical cells are erased by moving electrons from the floating gate to the drain, source or substrate. Part I of this paper addresses substrate erase modeling using a simulation based on the solution to Poissons equation with temperature as an independent variable. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the derivation of an accurate erase simulation and show the effects of temperature on the threshold voltage shift during the erase process. Several papers have been published on this topic but fail to present detailed derivations and none using this exact set of equations to model the temperature dependent erasing process.
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