Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device
The bit (B6) indicating whether there is the possibility or not to normally complete the write operation by executing again the write operation is provided, together with the bit (B7) indicating whether the access is possible or not from the external side of the chip and the bit (B4) indicating whether the write operation is normally completed or not, to the status register within a non-volatile semiconductor memory device. Accordingly, it can be prevented that the effective memory capacity is reduced with an accidental write error in the electrically programmable and erasable non-volatile semiconductor memory device such as a flash memory.
Hitachi, Ltd.
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inventional inventional
Keiichi
Yoshida