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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 06, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jean Devin, Aix-en-Provence, FR;
Bruno Leconte, Rousset, FR;
Alessandro Brigati, Castelsangiovanni, IT;
Assignee:
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.A., Gentilly, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36518522 ; 36518512 ; 36518523 ;
Abstract
An electrically programmable non-volatile memory organized in n-bit words includes a generator circuit to produce a verification voltage to perform a verification of a word in the memory. The generator circuit adjusts the verification voltage as a function of an information element that corresponds to the word to be verified.