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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2008
Filed:
May. 18, 2005
Applicants:
Edward Babb, Rescue, CA (US);
Prashanti Govindu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ahmed T. Sayed, Rancho Cordova, CA (US);
Inventors:
Edward Babb, Rescue, CA (US);
Prashanti Govindu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ahmed T. Sayed, Rancho Cordova, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for performing a plurality of read operations on a nonvolatile array of a memory according to a single read command, and storing data from the plurality of read operations in a volatile array of the memory. In some embodiments, the nonvolatile array may be a flash-based array and the volatile array may be a random access memory.