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RECOVERY WHILE PROGRAMMING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY (NVM)

  • US 20090228739A1
  • Filed: 11/25/2008
  • Published: 09/10/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of performing recovery in conjunction with programming an array of NVM cells comprising:

  • erasing the array cells and loading a first SRAM with user data;

    when programming the cells, flip bits in the first SRAM which are successfully programmed;

    if programming is not successful, reading the failed data from the array, and if the first SRAM bits were not successfully programmed, do not change them, and writing other bits which were not programmed or which were successfully programmed from the array to the first SRAM.

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