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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2016
Applicant:
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G11C 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/062 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for operating a read command of N complementary memory cells, the method includes the steps of determining if each of the first and second memory cells of the N complementary memory cells is in a first binary state or a second binary state, generating a count value by counting a total number of the first and second memory cells that are in the first binary state, and determining if the N complementary memory cells are programmed or erased based on a result of comparing the count value to a threshold number.