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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2005
Applicant:
Vijay P. Adusumilli, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Vijay P. Adusumilli, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Atmel Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A memory circuit and a method of operating a flash or EEPROM device that has two levels of internal cache. A memory device having a memory array, sense amplifiers, a data register, cache, an input-output circuit, and a control logic circuit is configured to output data while simultaneously reading data from the memory array to the data register or simultaneously copying data from the data register to a first level of internal cache. In addition, the memory device is configured to output data while simultaneously writing data from the data register to the memory array.