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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 03, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Nobuhiko Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36518522 ; 36518523 ; 36518511 ; 36518512 ; 36518513 ;
Abstract
An involatile memory which carries out, in a flash memory itself, verify check of the flash memory for respective bit lines, and produces an overall verify check result from a completion decision circuit to a tester. This makes it possible to solve a problem of a conventional flash memory in that the time taken by the verify check depends on the bus width of an external data bus, because it carries out the verify check by reading data from the flash memory through the external bus. Thus, the time taken by the verify check can be reduced.