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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2013
Applicant:
Spansion Llc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Zhizheng Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Cindy Sun, San Jose, CA (US);
He Yi, Fremont, CA (US);
Gulzar Kathawala, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/28 (2006.01); G11C 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/28 (2013.01); G11C 7/02 (2013.01); G11C 2211/5634 (2013.01);
Abstract
Selecting an array from among a plurality of arrays in a memory as a reference array. An exemplary method includes evaluating memory cells within the reference array to select a first reference cell associated with a first operation of the memory, and repeating the evaluating and the selecting to select a second reference cell from within the reference array, the second reference cell being associated with a second operation of the memory.