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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1993
Mickey L Fandrich, Placerville, CA (US);
Chakravarthy Yarlagadda, Citrus Heights, CA (US);
Rodney R Rozman, Placerville, CA (US);
Geoffrey A Gould, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A flash memory device having a plurality of flash array blocks and a block status register circuit containing a block status register for storing a block status for each flash array block. A flash array controller circuit in the flash memory device performs program or erase operations on the flash array blocks, and maintains the block status in each block status register. An interface circuit in the flash memory device enables read access of the block status registers over a bus.
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