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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. 16, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Quan H. Ngo, Sacramento, CA (US);
Saad Monasa, Sacramento, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/00 ;
Abstract
An interim density top boot flash memory architecture may be implemented by locking a portion or block of memory to prevent memory read and write accesses, thereby reducing the overall capacity of the memory. At the same time, this may be done without interfering with the access to parameters needed for implementing booting. In some embodiments, the locked memory may be placed at a block above the lowest addressable block that is accessed by an internal address.