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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 18, 2013
Applicant:

Nuvoton Technology Corporation, Hsinchu, TW;

Inventor:

Kenichi Arakawa, Chiba, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 (2006.01); G11C 16/06 (2006.01); G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/06 (2013.01); G11C 16/04 (2013.01); G11C 29/82 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory device includes at least one memory, a controller controlling the at least one memory and a connect unit. The at least one memory includes a memory region comprising a plurality of memory cells, a redundant memory region comprising a plurality of memory cells and a redundancy information memory unit. The redundancy information memory unit stores redundancy information of the memory cells of the memory region. The controller includes a control unit. The control unit controls data read-out from the at least one memory and data to be written-in to the at least one memory according to the redundancy information stored in the redundancy information memory unit.


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