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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:
Dec. 26, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2003
Shane Hollmer, San Jose, CA (US);
Shane Hollmer, San Jose, CA (US);
Silicon Storage Technology, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An unused state detection circuit is disclosed that detects an unused state in a semiconductor circuit. A semiconductor circuit is 'unused' when the unused state detection circuit has not been permanently cleared. When a semiconductor circuit is first powered up, the unused state detection circuit will detect that the semiconductor circuit has not previously been 'used' and can automatically activate a boot up procedure or a testing procedure (or both). After the semiconductor circuit is used, the unused state detection circuit provides an indication that the semiconductor circuit is no longer unused. The unused state detection circuit uses the state of a dedicated non-volatile memory array or a dedicated region of the general non-volatile memory portion of the semiconductor circuit to detect whether the semiconductor circuit has been previously unused.
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