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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2012
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
Methods and devices are disclosed, such as those involving a solid state memory device that includes a status register configured to be read with a combined parallel and serial read scheme. One such solid state memory includes a status register configured to store a plurality of bits indicative of status information of the memory. One such method of providing status information in the memory device includes providing the status information of a memory device in a parallel form. The method also includes providing the status information in a serial form after providing the status information in a parallel form in response to receiving at least one read command.