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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. 05, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/600 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/600 ;
Abstract
The inventive flash memory comprises a memory cell array including nonvolatile memory cells and a control CPU controlling data writing, reading and erasing in the memory cell array and a multivalued flag part. The multivalued flag part stores a value indicating whether data written in any memory cell is binary data or multivalued data. The data can be read in a binary read sequence for the binary data or a multivalued read sequence for the multivalued data due to the value of the multivalued flag part.