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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2017
Adesto Technologies Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bard M. Pedersen, Fremont, CA (US);
Adesto Technologies Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A memory device can include: a memory array comprising a plurality of memory cells; an interface configured to receive a suspend command and first and second write commands from a host, where the second write command is of higher priority and follows the first write command; a status register configured to store an automatic resume enable bit; a memory controller configured to suspend, in response to the suspend command, a first write operation that is executing the first write command on the memory array; the memory controller being configured to execute a second write operation on the memory array in response to the second write command; and the memory controller being configured to resume the first write operation upon completion of the second write operation in response to the automatic resume enable bit being set.