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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:
Mar. 17, 2009

Filed:

Jun. 09, 2006
Applicants:

Neal A. Crook, Berkshire, GB;

David J. Warner, Surrey, GB;

Inventors:

Neal A. Crook, Berkshire, GB;

David J. Warner, Surrey, GB;

Assignee:

Micron Technology Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/34 (2006.01); G11C 14/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A memory device comprising memory cells having volatile and non-volatile memory portions. The volatile memory portion of each cell includes circuitry for performing RAM functions while the non-volatile memory portion comprises circuitry defining pre-coded data. The memory device comprises a mechanism to operate an initialization sequence, which sets the initial state of the volatile memory portion of each memory cell to the pre-coded data defined in the associated non-volatile memory portion. The initialization sequence allows the initial state of each memory cell's volatile portion to be re-established after power has been applied to the memory device.


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