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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2002
Applicant:
Katsuo Komatsuzaki, Ibaraki, JP;
Inventor:
Katsuo Komatsuzaki, Ibaraki, JP;
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C011/22 ; G11C011/00 ; G11C005/06 ; G11C011/34 ; G11C007/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Memory cells are disclosed comprising volatile and non-volatile portions, where the non-volatile portions provide storage of multiple non-volatile data states or bits per memory cell. Methods are provided for reading non-volatile data states from a non-volatile portion of a memory cell into a volatile portion.