IEICE Electronics Express
Online ISSN : 1349-2543
ISSN-L : 1349-2543
Bit-error rate improvement of TLC NAND Flash using state re-ordering
Ik Joon ChangJoon-Sung Yang
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2012 Volume 9 Issue 23 Pages 1775-1779

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In scaled technologies, large cell-to-cell interference and F-N tunneling disturbance degrade threshold voltage (Vt) window which we can place program states. Moreover, in Triple Layer Cell (TLC) NAND Flash we should place seven program states (P1 ∼ P7) in the narrow Vt window, incurring large bit-error rate (BER). In this paper, we propose a state re-ordering technique to increase the efficiency of Vt window utilization in TLC NAND Flash memories. Our simulation results show that under equivalent Vt window sizes, the proposed technique provides 12.5∼18.4% smaller BER compared to conventional Gray-code mapping.

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