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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2008
Applicant:
Paolo Rolandi, Voghera, IT;
Inventor:
Paolo Rolandi, Voghera, IT;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics, S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to a row decoder circuit for non volatile memory devices of the electrically programmable and erasable type, for example of the Flash EEPROM type having a NOR architecture. The proposed row decoder circuit allows to carry out the erasing step very quickly, for example with a granularity emulating at least 16 kB and even overcoming by at least 2 kB Flash memories of the NAND type. The memory can thus maintain high performances in terms of random access speed but shows a high erasing speed typical of memory architectures of the NAND type.