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Attorney: Hamrick; Claude A. S., Donnelly; Oppenheimer W., Imam; Maryam


Number of patents: 4
Last date: December 01, 1998

NumberTitleIssue Date
5845313Direct logical block addressing flash memory mass storage architecture
A nonvolatile semiconductor mass storage system and architecture can be substituted for a rotating hard disk. The system and architecture avoid erase cycles each time information stored in the mass storage is changed. Erase cycle are avoided by programmin...
12/01/1998
5838614Identification and verification of a sector within a block of mass storage flash memory
A method and apparatus is disclosed for identifying a block being stored within flash memory devices using a cluster address for each block, the block being selectively erasable and having one or more sectors, the cluster address being stored in one of th...
11/17/1998
5835935Method of and architecture for controlling system data with automatic wear leveling in a semiconductor non-volatile mass storage memory
A semiconductor non-volatile mass storage memory is partitioned into user files and system files. The system files partition is further subdivided into clusters, each cluster having a plurality of sectors. Each cluster stores the system file for a single ...
11/10/1998
5818781Automatic voltage detection in multiple voltage applications
A computer card including a voltage detection circuit having Flash EEPROM devices and a controller device, the voltage detection circuit further including a variable voltage detector for determining the system voltage level provided by a power supply with...
10/06/1998
 
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