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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2017
Applicant:
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Kobi Danon, Te-Aviv, IL;
Yoram Betser, Mazkeret Batya, IL;
Uri Kotlicki, Ramat Gan, IL;
Arieh Feldman, Yokne'am Illit, IL;
Assignee:
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/06 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01); G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G11C 29/44 (2006.01); G11C 16/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/3445 (2013.01); G11C 16/14 (2013.01); G11C 29/4401 (2013.01); G11C 29/70 (2013.01);
Abstract
A semiconductor device comprises an embedded flash memory with row redundancy. The embedded flash memory comprises a memory bank that includes multiple physical sectors, where each physical sector comprises a plurality of erase sectors. In the memory bank, multiple portions of an additional erase sector are respectively distributed among the multiple physical sectors. The multiple portions of the additional erase sector are configured as a row-redundancy sector for the memory bank.