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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:
Jun. 13, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 08, 2015
Applicant:

Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research (Kustar), Abu Dhabi, AE;

Inventors:

Baker Shehadah Mohammad, Abu Dhabi, AE;

Khaled Hamed Salah, Abu Dhabi, AE;

Mahmoud Abdullah Al-Qutayri, Abu Dhabi, AE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G11C 11/4072 (2006.01); G11C 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/4072 (2013.01); G11C 7/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention discloses an erasure circuitry, a method for erasing a volatile memory, a volatile memory and a processing unit coupled with an operating system, where the erasure circuitry is adapted to erase the volatile memory at occurrence of a predefined event. The erasure circuitry includes a control unit for initiating a dummy operation to randomize data of one or more memory cells at the occurrence of a predefined event. The control unit is adapted to receive the addresses of the memory blocks from a processing unit via an operating system.


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