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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2003
Applicant:
Hidetoshi Saito, Yamato, JP;
Inventor:
Hidetoshi Saito, Yamato, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
There is disclosed a semiconductor memory device including a memory cell array containing a plurality of banks each having one or more blocks, a data erase circuit configured to erase data from selected blocks in banks at a unit of block, and an automatic multi-block erase circuit configured to enable a data read circuit configured to read data from memory cells provided in one bank, when data erase operation for all erase-object blocks in the one bank is completed, while continuing a data erasing operation of a next erase-object block included in another bank.