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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2002
Applicants:
Marc Beaujoin, Grenoble, FR;
Thomas Alofs, Grenoble, FR;
Paul Armagnat, Seyssinet, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics S.A., Montrouge, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G01R 31/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The sequential access memory array is able to store p words each of n bits. Such p test words each made up of n test bits are written in the memory array, the p test words are extracted sequentially and, for each current word extracted, the n test bits that compose it are compared sequentially with n respective expected data bits before extracting the next test word.