A nonvolatile memory device includes a peripheral circuit region and a memory cell region vertically connected with the peripheral circuit region, the peripheral circuit region including at least one first metal pad, and the memory cell region including at least one second metal pad directly connected with the at least one first metal pad. A method of programming the nonvolatile memory device incudes: receiving a programming command, data for a plurality of pages, and an address corresponding to a selected word-line; programming the data for one of the pages to an unselected word-line; reading data of a previously programmed page from the selected word-line; and programming the data for the remaining pages and the data of the previously programmed page to the selected word-line.

A memory device, such as a 3D AND type flash memory, and a compensation method of data retention thereof are provided. The compensation method includes the following. A reading operation is performed on each of a plurality of programmed memory cells of the memory device. Whether a charge loss phenomenon occurs in the programmed memory cells is determined through the reading operation to set the programmed memory cells to be charge loss memory cells. A refill program operation is performed on the charge loss memory cells.

A non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes an electrically data rewritable non-volatile semiconductor memory cell and a write circuit for writing data in the memory cell, the write circuit writing a data in the memory cells by supplying a write voltage Vpgm and a write control voltage VBL to the memory cell, continuing the writing of the data in the memory cell by changing the value of the write control voltage VBL in response to an advent of a first write state of the memory cell and inhibiting any operation of writing a data to the memory cell by further changing the value of the write control voltage VBL to Vdd in response to an advent of a second write state of the memory cell.

Provided herein are a semiconductor memory device and a method of operating the semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, a peripheral circuit configured to perform a program operation, which includes a plurality of program loops, on selected memory cells among the plurality of memory cells and a control circuit configured to control the peripheral circuit so that a program voltage applied to a selected word line, to which the selected memory cells are coupled, is stepwisely increased from a program start voltage to a target program voltage by a step voltage, which is a voltage increment of the program voltage, during a preset time period of a respective program loop.

Provided is a programming method of a nonvolatile memory device, the method comprising the steps of a first programming loop including applying a first verifying voltage to word lines of a plurality of first memory cells for being programmed in a first programming state of a first target threshold voltage and detecting, from among the plurality of first memory cells, a first slow memory cell whose threshold voltage is less than the first verifying voltage, a second programming loop including applying a first program pulse to the first memory cells and applying a second program pulse to the first slow memory cell, a voltage level of the second program pulse of the second program loop being greater than a voltage level of the first program pulse of the second program loop, and a third programming loop.

A non-volatile memory system includes one or more control circuits configured to program memory cells and verify the programming. The verifying of the programmed memory cells includes applying one or more voltages to perform boosting of a channel region associated with unselected memory cells, allowing the boosting of the channel region for a portion of time while applying the one or more voltages, preventing/interrupting the boosting of the channel region while applying the one or more voltages for a duration of time based on position of a memory cell selected for verification, applying a compare signal to the memory cell selected for verification, and performing a sensing operation for the memory cell selected for verification in response to the compare signal.

Memory devices including an array of memory cells, a first buffer selectively connected to the array of memory cells and corresponding to a particular bit rank of a byte of information of a programming operation of the memory device, and a second buffer selectively connected to the array of memory cells and corresponding to the particular bit rank of a different byte of information of the programming operation of the memory device, wherein an output of the first buffer and an output of the second buffer are connected in parallel to a common line, as well as methods of their operation to indicate a pass/fail condition of the programming operation.

A non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes an electrically data rewritable non-volatile semiconductor memory cell and a write circuit for writing data in the memory cell, the write circuit writing a data in the memory cells by supplying a write voltage Vpgm and a write control voltage VBL to the memory cell, continuing the writing of the data in the memory cell by changing the value of the write control voltage VBL in response to an advent of a first write state of the memory cell and inhibiting any operation of writing a data to the memory cell by further changing the value of the write control voltage VBL to Vdd in response to an advent of a second write state of the memory cell.

A data storage device can detect for a failure in decoding of an x-bit row address and/or a y-bit column of an (x+y)-bit address. The data storage device decodes the x-bit row address and/or the y-bit column address to provide wordlines (WLs) and/or bitlines (BLs) to access one or more cells from among a memory array of the data storage device. The data storage device compares one or more subsets of the WLs and/or of the BLs to each other to detect for the failure. The data storage device determines the failure is present in the decoding of the x-bit row address and/or the y-bit column of the (x+y)-bit address when one or more WL and/or BL from among the one or more subsets of the WLs and/or the BLs differ.

A semiconductor memory device includes first to third pages, first to the third word lines, and a row decoder. In data writing, data is written into the first page before data is written into the second page. The row decoder is configured to apply first to third verify voltages to gates of first to third memory cells in a program verify operation.