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Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 01, 2014
Applicant:

Winbond Electronics Corporation, Taichung, TW;

Inventor:

Oron Michael, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/15 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); H03M 13/13 (2006.01); H03M 13/27 (2006.01); G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G11C 29/04 (2006.01); H03M 13/19 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); H03M 13/13 (2013.01); H03M 13/27 (2013.01); G11C 16/26 (2013.01); G11C 2029/0411 (2013.01); H03M 13/152 (2013.01); H03M 13/1515 (2013.01); H03M 13/19 (2013.01);
Abstract

A continuous read operation may be achieved by using a data buffer having a partitioned data register and a partitioned cache register, user configurable internal ECC associated with the cache register, and fast bad block management. During a data read operation, the ECC status may be indicated by ECC status bits. The status (1:1), for example, may indicate for the Continuous Read Mode that the entire data output contains more than 4 bits errors/page in multiple pages. However, one may wish to know the ECC status of each page or of each page partition. For the former, the ECC status for the entire page may be determined and made in the status register at the end of the output of the page. For the latter, the ECC status of each page partition may be determined and output before output of the corresponding page partition.


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