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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tam Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Briner, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Silicon Storage Technology, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/134 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/134 ;
Abstract
An integrated circuit for concurrent flash memory. The circuit has an uneven array architecture including a pair of arrays of a first size, and a pair of arrays of a second size. The arrays and are cooperatively linked in a manner which allows certain arrays to be read while other arrays are concurrently programmed or erased. The uneven array architecture of circuit provides increased flexibility of bank size combinations for concurrent read and program/erase operation.