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Techniques for operating non-volatile memory systems with data sectors having different sizes than the sizes of the pages and/or blocks of the memory

  • US 6,684,289 B1
  • Filed: 11/22/2000
  • Issued: 01/27/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a non-volatile memory having an array of memory cells divided into a plurality of units of a minimum number of memory cells that are simultaneously erasable, the memory cells of the erasable units being individually divided into a plurality of units of a minimum number of memory cells adapted to be programmed together with a unit of user data plus overhead data, a method of operating the memory comprising programming a number of units of user data into individual erasable units that exceed the number of programming units in an erasable unit by using at least some of the programming unit memory cells provided for storing overhead data to store portions of individual units of user data that are programmed into more than one programming unit.

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