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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2004
Salvatore Polizzi, Palermo, IT;
Maurizio Francesco Perroni, Messina, IT;
Salvatore Mazzara, Palermo, IT;
Salvatore Polizzi, Palermo, IT;
Maurizio Francesco Perroni, Messina, IT;
Salvatore Mazzara, Palermo, IT;
STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, (MI), IT;
Abstract
An integrated device is provided that includes a non-volatile memory having an addressing parallelism and a data parallelism, and a communication interface for interfacing the memory with an external bus. The external bus has a transfer parallelism lower than the addressing parallelism and the data parallelism. The communication interface includes control means for executing multiple reading operations and/or multiple writing operations on the memory according to different modalities in response to corresponding command codes received from the external bus. Also provided is a method of operating such an integrated device.