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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:
Jul. 31, 2007

Filed:

Jan. 29, 2004
Applicants:

Marco Pasotti, San Martino Siccomario, IT;

Michele Borgatti, Finale Emilia, IT;

Pier Luigi Rolandi, Monleale, IT;

Inventors:

Marco Pasotti, San Martino Siccomario, IT;

Michele Borgatti, Finale Emilia, IT;

Pier Luigi Rolandi, Monleale, IT;

Assignee:

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

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

An application-specific embeddable flash memory having three content-specific I/O ports and delivering a peak read throughput of 1.2 GB/s. The memory is combined with a special automatic programming gate voltage ramp generator circuit having a programming rate of 1 Mbyte/s for non-volatile storage of code, data, and embedded FPGA bit stream configurations. The test chip uses a NOR-type 0.18 μm flash embedded technology with 1.8V power supply, two poly, six metal and memory cell size of 0.35 μm.


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