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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2017
Applicant:
Macronix International Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Inventors:
Su-Chueh Lo, Hsinchu, TW;
Chun-Yu Liao, Taichung, TW;
Assignee:
MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G06F 12/06 (2006.01); G11C 11/417 (2006.01); G11C 11/16 (2006.01); G11C 7/20 (2006.01); G11C 7/10 (2006.01); G11C 11/413 (2006.01); G11C 29/50 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0646 (2013.01); G11C 7/1063 (2013.01); G11C 7/20 (2013.01); G11C 11/1659 (2013.01); G11C 11/1673 (2013.01); G11C 11/413 (2013.01); G11C 11/417 (2013.01); G11C 29/50012 (2013.01); G06F 2003/0691 (2013.01); G11C 11/1675 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided is a memory device including: a memory array, including a flag memory array having a plurality of flag memory cells and a data memory array having a plurality of data memory cells, the corresponding flag memory cells being used to record whether the corresponding data memory cells have been written or not. In initialization, the flag memory array is initialized by the control circuit but the data memory array is not initialized.