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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2006

Filed:

Feb. 21, 2003
Applicants:

Salvatore Poli, Mascalucia, IT;

Paolino Schillaci, Casteltermini, IT;

Salvatore Polizzi, San Giovanni La Punta, IT;

Inventors:

Salvatore Poli, Mascalucia, IT;

Paolino Schillaci, Casteltermini, IT;

Salvatore Polizzi, San Giovanni La Punta, IT;

Assignee:

STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The invention provides a protocol cycle during which a memory address and all the data bytes to be written are transmitted, and the writing process is carried out only once for all the transmitted data bytes, by writing a first byte in the memory sector corresponding to a first address generated by resetting to zero the 2 least significant bits of the transmitted address and all the other transmitted bytes in successive addresses. The method includes writing a certain number N of data bytes, in consecutive memory addresses in a memory array of a memory device, and includes unprotecting the memory sectors in which data are to be written, communicating the programming command to the memory device, communicating to the memory device the bits to be stored and specifying a relative memory address of a sector to write in, and writing the data bits in the memory.


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