B4-Flash Memory with one million cycling endurance - Suitable for extremely high end SSD applications -

This paper describes million cycling capability of B4-Flash (Back Bias assisted Band-to-Band tunneling induced Hot Electron injection Flash) memory with sufficient data retention characteristics, evaluated by mega bit level statistics using actual 512Mb chips. 512Mb B4-Flash chips fabricated by 90nm process have been confirmed its excellent million cycling endurance without fatal degradation of program/erase performances. Retention capability after one million-cycling has been also evaluated and confirmed that B4-Flash has achieved sufficient retention characteristics for high cycling SSD with long term data retention applications, much superior to JEDEC standard criterion. These results show its suitability and applicability of B4-Flash to high end Tier0 class SSDs (Solid State Drives).