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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2013
Applicant:
Spansion Llc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Wei-Kent Ong, Penang, MY;
Mee-Choo Ong, Penang, MY;
Assignee:
CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTORS CORPORATION, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G11C 16/16 (2006.01); G11C 5/14 (2006.01); G11C 16/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/16 (2013.01); G11C 5/148 (2013.01); G11C 16/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are system, method and/or computer program product embodiments for automatically resuming an irregular erasure stoppage in a sector of a memory system. An embodiment includes storing information related to any completed sub-stage of a multi stage erasure process and the corresponding memory sector address in a dedicated memory. After an irregular erasure stoppage occurs, an embodiment reads the information from the dedicated memory and resumes the erasure process of the memory sector from the last sub-stage completed.