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Flash EEPROM system with simultaneous multiple data sector programming and storage of physical block characteristics in other designated blocks

  • US 20060109712A1
  • Filed: 12/29/2005
  • Published: 05/25/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of operating a re-programmable non-volatile memory system having floating gate memory cells organized into distinct blocks of a number of simultaneously erasable cells capable of storing a given quantity of data, the blocks of cells being further organized into a plurality of units, comprising:

  • receiving and temporarily storing in a buffer memory at least a given number of sectors of user data to be programmed into the memory system, moving data in a stream from one of the given number of sectors of user data in the buffer at a time to a respective one of a given number of storage registers at a time, and thereafter moving the user data from the given number of storage registers in parallel to respective ones of a given number of memory cell blocks that are located within different ones of a given number of said units.

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