METHOD OF ERASING RECORDED INFORMATION AND DEVICE FOR REALISING SAID METHOD Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC G11C7/00 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: method is proposed for erasing information recorded on a non-uniform semiconductor recording medium with non-volatile memory. The method is based on erasing records through electron quantum-mechanical tunneling by removing charge from the floating gate placed in memory cell of the microcircuit chip through hot-electron injection. The device for realising the method has a field-forming system which generates magnetic field pulses. The magnetic field pulses act on the charges of the floating gate, causing their excitement, which enables use of pulses of erasing voltage with low energy.

EFFECT: more reliable erasure of information in a short time and less power consumption.

2 cl, 6 dwg