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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2009
Chun-hsiung Hung, Hsinchu, TW;
Kuen-long Chang, Mucha-Taipei, TW;
Chia-he Liu, Taoyuan, TW;
Macronix International Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
An integrated circuit device includes a serial peripheral interface adapted for receiving a first command supporting an address of a first configuration, wherein the serial peripheral interface supports an address of a second configuration upon receipt of a second command, the second configuration being different from the first configuration. In a specific embodiment, the first and the second configurations are different in address length. In another embodiment, a second address cooperated with the second command has a first part and a second part, the second part comprising a plurality of byte addresses, each of the byte addresses being associated with a corresponding byte of data. In another embodiment, integrated circuit device also includes a mode logic circuit for controlling operations of the first command and the second command. Various other embodiments are also described.