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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:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Luigi Pascucci, Sesto San Giovanni, IT;
Marco Fontana, Milan, IT;
Assignee:
STMelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/206 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/206 ;
Abstract
A method for reading a memory by applying control signals. The control signals include a memory enable signal, a visibility signal, and a read signal. By applying the control signals to the memory, the memory is selectively configured into any of a plurality of cycles associated with reading the memory. The different cycles include: random read, pipeline-type random read, sequential read and suspend and wait cycles. Depending upon the cycle configuration of the memory, data is selectively emitted from the memory that coincides with the externally generated address.