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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 21, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiromi Nobukata, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/604 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/604 ;
Abstract
A non-volatile semiconductor memory capable of dealing with eight levels and a method of writing data therein, which can shorten the writing time and perform verify read and normal read operations at a high speed by connecting a bit line to a supply source of a voltage in accordance with latch data of a latch circuit after charging all bit lines at a power source voltage level before a write operation, and by performing the write operations in parallel.