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© 2005 Microchip Technology Inc. DS01019A-page 1
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BASIC TERMS
The definition of “endurance” (as applied to EEPROMs)
contains various words and phrases that require clear
definition and understanding. As shown in the following
paragraphs, different manufacturers use different
standards. “Endurance cycling” is a test performed by
all manufacturers (and some customers) to determine
how many “write cycles” the product will achieve before
failing.
Microchip defines “endurance” as the minimum
number of write cycles the product can be subjected to
before it fails.
“Failure” is a somewhat arbitrary definition since a
device only truly fails when it no longer meets the
customer expectation and does not operate in his
system. A failure can be defined in this, the loosest of
definitions, or the most stringent of definitions (whereby
a device would fail if it did not meet any of the data
sheet parameters), as well as a wide range in between.
For example, if the device does not correctly store data
into a particular address that is not used, then the
device would work correctly for the customer but would
fail a functional test by the manufacturer. Likewise, if
the device draws more current than the data sheet
specifies after some time, but the customer application
could supply the current needed, the device would
work in the customer application but would fail a
parametric test set by the manufacturer.
Microchip uses the most stringent definition:
A failure occurs when the device fails to meet any
data sheet condition under any specified operating
condition of a temperature and voltage.
The number of devices that can fail before a particular
endurance criteria is not met is also somewhat flexible.
Even the most quality-conscious manufacturer will
occasionally have a failure, so a failure level is defined.
There are several industry standard conditions for
many types of reliability tests. For example, IEEE-Std-
1005-1998 defines a maximum cumulative failure rate
of 1%. JEDEC (The Joint Electronic Device Engineer-
ing Council), JESD47, defines that if three lots of 77
units each have no fails (equivalent to an LTPD of 1%)
at a given endurance goal, then that goal has been
met.
Microchip uses a more stringent criteria for endurance:
No fails out of a sample of 256 units per product, and
no fails out of 3 lots of 256 units each per technology
for the given endurance goal to have been met. That is
equivalent to 0/768 or less than 0.3% LTPD.
A “write cycle” is also a somewhat flexible definition
since almost every customer will write the device in a
different way. For example, if the customer application
uses only the first three bytes of the array to store
variable data, and the remainder of the array is used as
a look-up table, then a write cycle will be complete
when the three data bytes have been re-written to their
new data state.
A write cycle is often described as an erase/write cycle
since almost all EEPROM technologies employ an
“auto-erase” before the data is actually written to the
array. This is also used by Microchip but we will use the
term “write cycle” since the auto-erase is invisible to,
and cannot be suppressed by, the customer.
The term “data changes” is occasionally used in place
of “write cycle” or “erase/write cycle.” A data change
will occur when an auto-erase cycle is initiated, and a
second data change will occur upon the write cycle,
therefore, an “erase/write cycle” is equivalent to two
“data changes.” The term “data change” may also imply
that a different type of cycling is being used than
“erase/write cycle”. This will be described later.
The term “write cycle” does not define under what
conditions the cycling was done (unless explicitly
stated), nor does it define the type of cycling that was
done. The endurance cycling can be done at any
number of conditions of voltage and temperature (e.g.,
85°C and 5.5V, or 25°C and 5.0V) that may or may not
meet with a customer’s application. The cycling mode
used in endurance cycling can affect the endurance of
the product. All these effects will be described later.
Microchip uses the most stringent conditions that are
reasonable for endurance cycling: Byte or Page mode
cycling at a temperature or 85°C at 5.5V. All data not
explicitly defined at other conditions is taken at these
conditions.
SYSTEM DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
There are a number of design considerations that the
system designer can use to maximize the endurance of
an EEPROM-based device, if endurance is the
application’s limiting factor.
Author: David Wilkie
Microchip Technology Inc.
EEPROM Endurance Tutorial
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DS01019A-page 2 © 2005 Microchip Technology Inc.
As will be described in more detail later, if the designer
has any control over certain environmental or operating
conditions, he should observe the following basic
guidelines:
• Keep the application temperature as low as
possible.
• Keep the application voltage (or the VCC voltage
on the EEPROM) as low as possible.
• Write as few bytes as possible.
• Use page write feature whenever possible
• Write data as infrequently as possible.
With these basic guidelines applied to the fullest extent,
the endurance of EEPROM-based devices can be
extended well beyond the specified minimum
endurance. Under certain very specific conditions,
Microchip Serial EEPROMs have been shown to last
for over 100 million cycles, and 10-million cycle
applications are common.
WRITE MODES IN EEPROMS
There are three ways that EEPROM-based devices
can have the entire array data contents changed.
These are: Byte mode, Page mode and Block (or Bulk)
mode. Some types of devices support all three modes,
others may only support one or two modes. The mode
that is used to write an EEPROM-based device may
affect the long term endurance of the product. Byte
mode writing is used when the contents of the array are
changed one byte at a time. For some devices this is
the only user-accessible write mode available. To
change the entire contents of a Serial EEPROM in this
way would take up to 6 minutes (using 5 ms per byte on
a 512K Serial EEPROM). Page mode writing is a
popular feature on many designs of EEPROM memory
products. Again using 512K serial EEPROM as an
example, this feature allows up to 128 bytes of data to
be written to the memory in the same time that one byte
would normally take. In this mode, the write time for a
512K Serial EEPROM can be cut from 6 minutes to 3
seconds. Block cycle is generally a test mode used by
EEPROM manufacturers to make it easier to test the
products. Some types of EEPROM-based products
have these modes as user options (such as the ERAL
and WRAL mode in 93LXXX products), but generally
this mode is not user accessible. A block write can be
done in as little as 1 ms, allowing millions of write cycles
to be completed in a few hours.
A general rule to follow in choosing write modes is that
the larger the number of bytes being written in a single
instruction, the longer the device will last. For example,
in Byte mode, a device might start to fail after 300,000
cycles under a particular set of conditions. But the
device may last 600,000 cycles in Page mode under
the same conditions. In Block mode, the device might
last 1 million cycles under the same conditions.
The reason for this is related to the internal design of
any EEPROM-based product. In these devices, an
internal “charge-pump” takes the applied VCC voltage
(typically 1.8V to 5.5V) and increases it to 15V to 20V.
This voltage is required to induce “Fowler-Nordhiem
Tunneling” that is used to program and erase
EEPROM-based devices.
The charge pump voltage is used to program however
many EEPROM-cells are being programmed. For
example, in Byte mode, all the cells in a byte (8 or 16)
are biased with the charge pump voltage. In Block
mode, all the cells in the array (up to 1M depending on
the device) are biased with the charge pump voltage.
The charge pump is like a current source during
conditions of high load, so the voltage put out by the
charge pump will be reduced slightly if more bytes are
being written. If the whole array is being programmed
then the charge pump voltage will be significantly
reduced.
Generally, the lower the charge pump voltage the
better the endurance (there is a limit since the charge
pump voltage needs to be high enough to program the
cell) and so the best endurance is generally achieved
by using Block mode cycling. Page mode is worse than
Block mode, but better than Byte mode. Block mode is
generally not a very useful cycling mode to the end
user, since the data contents in the whole array will be
changed to the same value (generally 00 or FF). When
Microchip tests EEPROM-based products, we use Byte
mode cycling on devices which do not have a Page
mode, and Page mode cycling for those that do. We
encourage our customers to use Page mode writing on
all products that have Page mode in order to get the
highest endurance.
ENDURANCE TESTING
METHODOLOGIES
Different manufacturers use different ways to both
cycle and test EEPROM-based products. There is no
standard for endurance cycling or for testing devices
after cycling.
There are two groups of testing that Microchip performs
on all products: qualification and production. Qualifica-
tion testing is done for all new products and major
changes to a product or manufacturing process.
Production testing is done on all devices shipped to our
customers.
Qualification testing at Microchip is used to ensure that
the device is reliable. A great deal of testing is done,
including endurance testing on all EEPROM-based
products. Endurance cycling is generally done at 85°C.
After the rated number of cycles, the sample is tested
to a full production test program. After endurance, the
units are subject to “data retention” to ensure that the
required 200 years of data retention will be achieved
after the maximum number of cycles has been
completed.
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Endurance cycling is done under the conditions
previously described and the data retention test is
performed after this. After the data retention stress is
completed (which takes up to six weeks), the devices
are tested again to confirm the functionality of the
device to all data sheet parameters. No failures are
allowed after the endurance or data retention stress
(equivalent to more than 200 years at 55°C).
Production testing is done on all devices shipped to a
customer. Production testing begins immediately after
a wafer lot is finished being processed, continuing in
various stages until the devices are shipped to a
customer.
The first tests conducted on EEPROM-based products
at Microchip are called wafer sort. They are completed
before the wafer is cut up into dice for assembly. There
is a series of tests which include Block cycle (up to
5000) to ensure reliability by weeding out weak devices
so they never get shipped. After assembly, full testing
is again done to ensure device functionality at the
temperature extremes.
The testing that Microchip does is unique. Microchip
firmly believes that our testing ensures the highest
quality and reliability.
THE EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON
EEPROM ENDURANCE
The temperature at which cycling is done will affect the
number of write cycles that can be executed before the
device fails. The higher the temperature, the worse the
endurance will be. Generally, and approximately, a
device which fails at 10 million cycles at 25°C will fail at
2 million cycles at 85°C and 1 million cycles at 125°C.
The reasons for this are not conclusive (although there
is much technical literature supporting one theory or
another), but it is apparent that the failure mode of
EEPROM cells (electron trapping in the tunnel
dielectric causing shielding and dielectric breakdown)
is strongly dependent on temperature.
Data taken by Microchip suggests that if the typical
failure of an EEPROM-based device is 10 million
cycles at 25°C, the mean failure will occur at other
temperatures according to the following table:
This data was taken on Microchip FLOTOX Fowler-
Nordhiem Tunneling EEPROMs and formed a part of
the data set used to create the Total Endurance™
model. Other technologies may have different charac-
teristics. As is clearly seen, any cycling done at 25°C
can be misleading in the extreme if the application
requires a device that can be cycled 10 million times at,
say, 55°C.
THE EFFECT OF VOLTAGE ON
EEPROM ENDURANCE
The voltage at which a device is written can also affect
the endurance. This is simply because the charge
pump (used to program and erase EEPROM cells) is
more powerful at higher voltages. As has already been
described, a higher programming voltage will reduce
the endurance of an EEPROM cell and a stronger
charge pump will produce a higher voltage.
More recently designed Serial EEPROM products at
Microchip have minimized this effect in order to provide
a more consistent endurance across VDD voltage.
Data taken by Microchip suggests that if the typical
failure of an EEPROM-based device is 1 million cycles
when endurance cycling is done at 5.5V, mean failure
occurs at other temperatures according to the following
table:
TABLE 1: TEMPERATURE MEAN
FAILURE
Write Cycle
Temperature Mean Failure (Cycles)
-40°C 37.1 Million
0°C 16.7 Million
25°C 10.0 Million
40°C 7.4 Million
55°C 5.4 Million
70°C 4.0 Million
85°C 2.9 Million
100°C 2.2 Million
125°C 1.3 Million


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