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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2013
Applicant:
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Ross S. Scouller, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey C. Cunningham, Austin, TX (US);
Horacio P. Gasquet, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7209 (2013.01);
Abstract
A brownout tolerant EEPROM emulator () manages memory operations at a volatile memory () and non-volatile memory () using a plurality of sector status bits () and forward/reverse skip flags () stored in a sector identification record () of each sector to define a plurality of status indicators arranged sequentially to specify a plurality of sector configuration states for each memory sector, and to automatically bypass one or more dead sectors in the non-volatile memory array during forward copydown and reverse search operations.