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Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2003

Filed:

Mar. 13, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:

Shinichi Mizoguchi, Tokyo, JP;

Masatoshi Kimura, Tokyo, JP;

Takayuki Shinohara, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
Abstract

A semiconductor storage device is equipped with flash memories each flash memory has a limited size of spare storage area for rewriting data when a write error occurs, and the storage device calculates the remaining size of the spare storage area after the completion of the re-writing, and examines whether or not the remaining size is smaller than a predetermined value, and generates a warning when the remaining size is smaller than the predetermined value, to thereby acknowledge that the life of each flash memory comes close to the end before completely used up.


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Mizoguchi, Shinichi. (2003). Life warning generation system and method of semiconductor storage device equipped with flash memory (U.S. Patent No. 6646931). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6646931

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