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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2012
Ashot Melik-martirosian, San Diego, CA (US);
Pablo Alejandro Ziperovich, San Diego, CA (US);
Mark Moshayedi, Newport Coast, CA (US);
Ashot Melik-Martirosian, San Diego, CA (US);
Pablo Alejandro Ziperovich, San Diego, CA (US);
Mark Moshayedi, Newport Coast, CA (US);
STEC, Inc., Santa Ana, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for suspending an erase operation performed on a group of memory cells in a flash memory circuit is disclosed. One example method includes providing to the memory circuit a command to erase the group of memory cells via a plurality of erase pulses. After applying an erase pulse, if it is determined that another operation has a priority higher than a predetermined threshold, the method suspends the erase operation, performs the other operation, and then resumes the erase operation.