Method and a device for performing a flash EEPROM

Details Method and a device for performing a flash EEPROM Method and a device for performing a flash EEPROM

1996-11-27

2000-07-04

Nguyen, Hiep T

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Specific memory composition

711110, 711117, 711169, 709107, 713503, 36518533, 379 671, 379 8807, 379 8828, G06F 1208

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ABSTRACT:
An initiating processing unit is normally occupied during the programming of flash EEPROMs. The time of occupation becomes ever longer with increasing age and degree of utilization of the flash EEPROMs. Here, the processing unit uses an initiatable interrupt routine, which triggers a programming of the flash EEPROM and is then terminated in order to use the programming to further process a main program at the same time. A timer function in a processing unit is used to trigger an interrupt routine. The interrupt routine checks the initial conditions and in the case when an initial condition has been fulfilled, the programming of the flash EEPROM is triggered, whereupon the execution of the main program continues in the processing unit during the programming.

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