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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 20, 1996
David A Leak, Rancho Cordova, CA (US);
Fasil G Bekele, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas C Price, Fair Oaks, CA (US);
Alan E Baker, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Charles W Brown, Folsom, CA (US);
Peter K Hazen, Auburn, CA (US);
Vishram Prakash Dalvi, Fair Oaks, CA (US);
Rodney R Rozman, Placerville, CA (US);
Christopher John Haid, Folsom, CA (US);
Jerry Kreifels, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus suspend a program operation in a nonvolatile writeable memory. The nonvolatile writeable memory includes a memory array, a command register and memory array control circuitry. The command register decodes a program suspend command and provides a suspend signal as an output. The memory array control circuitry is coupled to receive the suspend signal from the command register. The memory array control circuitry performs a program operation in which data is written to the memory array. The memory array control circuitry suspends the program operation upon receiving the suspend signal.