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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2017
Applicant:
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G11C 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/062 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method for responding to a single user read command of a complementary cell array including one or more complementary cell pairs, the method including: determining if a first group of cells out of a data word is in an erased state or in a programmed state, and outputting a data word so that (a) if the first group of cells is determined to be erased a logical 'one' is output for each bit of the data word and (b) if the first group of cells is determined to be programmed the result of a complementary read is output for each bit of the data word.