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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 1998
Filed:
May. 24, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Edward Hsia, San Jose, CA (US);
Darlene Hamilton, San Jose, CA (US);
Jose H Hernandez, Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 211 ; 365201 ;
Abstract
A method of testing Flash memory devices by performing wafer sort testing on main array cells and redundancy array cells of the Flash memory device and performing class testing on redundancy array cells only. There is a major savings of testing time with no decrease in quality of the final product.