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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2004
Bruno Leconte, Rousset, FR;
Paola Cavaleri, Rousset, FR;
Sébastien Zink, Aix en Provence, FR;
STMicroelectronics S.A., Montrouge, FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a memory in integrated circuit comprising a central Flash-type memory comprising memory cells forming pages, a buffer memory capable of storing binary words, and a sequencer for executing an instruction for saving, in a target page of the Flash memory, a series of external words received at an input terminal of the memory. According to the present invention, the sequencer is arranged for, after saving the series of external words in the buffer memory, saving, in the buffer memory, internal words present in the target page and corresponding, due to their address in the page, to locations of words in the buffer memory that have not received any external words, then erasing the target page and saving in the erased page the words present in the buffer memory.