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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ritesh Trivedi, Fair Oaks, CA (US);
Mark Bauer, Placerville, CA (US);
Sandeep Guliani, Folsom, CA (US);
Balaji Srinivasan, Fair Oaks, CA (US);
Kerry Tedrow, Folsom, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/606 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/606 ;
Abstract
According to the invention, an apparatus and method are disclosed for sensing the contents of non-volatile memory. According to one embodiment, a set of local sensing circuits is used to read the logical values stored in memory cells contained within a partition of a non-volatile memory device.