Static information storage and retrieval – Floating gate – Particular connection
Reexamination Certificate
2005-12-13
2005-12-13
Elms, Richard (Department: 2824)
Static information storage and retrieval
Floating gate
Particular connection
C365S185050, C365S185240
Reexamination Certificate
active
06975536
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus including a virtual ground array, which includes memory cells connected in rows and columns to word lines and bit lines, respectively. The virtual ground array includes at least one block of data, and peripheral circuitry adapted to simultaneously access a plurality of subsets of the at least one block of data stored in the memory cells along at least one word line. Methods for operating the virtual ground array in a mass storage device include simultaneously accessing a plurality of subsets of at least one block of data stored in the memory cells along at least one word line.
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Cohen Zeev
Dvir Ran
Maayan Eduardo
Eitan Law Group
Elms Richard
Infineon Technologies Flash Ltd.
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Saifun Semiconductors Ltd.
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