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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:
Mar. 27, 2018

Filed:

May. 19, 2015
Applicant:

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bradley Edman Sundahl, San Jose, CA (US);

Sean Michael O'Mullan, San Jose, CA (US);

Gregory Charles Yancey, San Jose, CA (US);

Kenneth Alan Okin, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/30 (2006.01); G11C 16/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/32 (2013.01); G11C 16/30 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, apparatus, and manufacture for memory device startup is provided. Flash memory devices are configured such that, upon the power supply voltage reaching a pre-determined level, each flash memory is arranged to load the random access memory with instructions for the flash memory, and then execute a first portion of the instructions for the flash memory. After executing the first portion of the instructions for the flash memory, each separate subset of the flash memories waits for a separate, distinct delay period. For each flash memory, after the delay period expires for that flash memory, the flash memory executes a second portion of the instructions for the flash memory.


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