摘要:
A semiconductor file memory device, and an information processing system incorporating the device, uses flash memories to achieve fast file access performance. The file memory device includes a parallel arrangement of memory element groups having a unit erasure block size greater than the data bus width of the memory device, and a data access width smaller than the data bus; a file division unit for dividing file data having one or more unit storage data blocks into combined blocks that include a combination of arbitrary unit storage data blocks; a data distribution unit for arbitrarily combining data on the data bus having a unit data size equal to the data access width, and for making the combined data correspond to an arbitrary combination of memory element groups equal in number to the unit size data; and a control unit for controlling the data distribution unit so that each combined block is stored in the file memory device based on a correspondence between the combined block and arbitrary combinations of memory elements.
摘要:
In response to a read command received by a system interface unit for accessing a plurality of blocks of data stored in said non-volatile semiconductor memory, a controller carries out selective read operations of blocks of data to two memories from the non-volatile semiconductor memory. The controller also carries out parallel operations of data transferring a first block of data, which has already been subjected to error detection and error correction operations by an error correction unit, from one of the two memories to a host system via said system interface unit and of data transferring of a second block of data to be subjected to the error detection and error correction operation, from said non-volatile semiconductor memory to the other of the two memories.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device having an electrically erasable nonvolatile memory, wherein the nonvolatile memory has management information regions for individual blocks and fault registration regions for registering fault addresses. If a block is accessed and found to be faulty, the fault registration is performed so that a partially faulty memory can be used without an increase in access time. By registering the management information address for executing the interchanges of blocks in one-to-one correspondence in the administrative information region, moreover, the blocks can be interchanged depending upon the frequency of rewriting.
摘要:
A test device which employs a scan path method includes a latch circuit for holding a scan in signal, a transfer gate connected between the scan in signal and an input terminal of the latch circuit and having a gate terminal receiving a clock signal, a select circuit for selecting one of a data signal and an output signal from the latch circuit in response to a mode select signal and for outputting the selected signal, and a flipflop circuit for holding an output signal from the select circuit in response to the clock signal and for outputting the held signal as a scan out signal.
摘要:
A mobile communication terminal device whose authentication and settlement functions by noncontact proximity communication can be continuously used even after operating voltage from battery power drops is provided. Only when the supply of required power from a battery is lost, a security controller is controlled into a mode in which it operates with low power consumption and noncontact authentication and settlement functions are ensured by external electromagnetic field power. Thus the noncontact authentication and settlement functions can be used even after the battery remaining capacity is lost by use of a communication function for the principal purpose. Specifically, the following is implemented: when there is the supply of required power from the battery, it is made possible to carry out high-performance, multifunctional authentication and settlement processing making good use of high-speed processing, mass storage, and the like which are the advantages of the security controller essentially driven by battery; and in an anomalous instance in which the battery remaining capacity is lost, it is made possible to carry out minimal authentication and settlement processing.
摘要:
An electrically alterable non-volatile multi-level memory device and a method of operating such a device, which includes setting a status of at least one of the memory cells to one state selected from a plurality of states including at least first to fourth level states, in response to information to be stored in the one memory cell, and reading the status of the memory cell to determine whether the read out status corresponds to one of the first to fourth level states by utilizing a first reference level set between the second and third level states, a second reference level set between the first and second level states and a third reference level set between the third and fourth level states.
摘要:
A storage device, including: a non-volatile semiconductor memory which is electrically erasable; a system interface coupled with an external host system; and a controller reading data from the non-volatile semiconductor memory and transmitting data to the host system via the system interface in response to a read command received by the system interface from the host system; and wherein the controller starts reading (N+n)th sector data from the non-volatile semiconductor memory, while the controller transmits Nth sector data that has been read from the non-volatile semiconductor memory to the host system via the system interface, in response to the read command for successive sector data.
摘要:
In the initial setting of a memory card 1, the flash check data FD stored in a flash memory 2 is read out, this data FD is compared with the operation check data FD11 stored previously in the ROM, the write check data FD12 stored in the ROM 4a is written, if a fault is not detected, to the flash memory 2, and this data is read again and is compared with the write check data. FD12 of the ROM 4a. When any fault is not detected in comparison of these data, the CPU determines that the flash memory 2 is normal. Moreover, if a fault is detected in the comparison of data, the CPU sets the reset process fault data to a register 5a to set a controller 3 to the sleep mode. When the command CMD is received during this period, data comparison is executed again.
摘要翻译:在存储卡1的初始设置中,读出存储在闪速存储器2中的闪存检查数据FD,将该数据FD与先前存储在ROM中的操作检查数据FD11进行比较,存储在存储卡1中的写入检查数据FD12 如果没有检测到故障,ROM 4a被写入闪速存储器2,并且该数据被再次读取并且与写检查数据进行比较。 ROM 4a的FD12。 当比较这些数据时没有检测到任何故障时,CPU确定闪存2正常。 此外,如果在比较数据中检测到故障,则CPU将复位处理故障数据设置为寄存器5a,以将控制器3设置为睡眠模式。 当在此期间接收到命令CMD时,再次执行数据比较。
摘要:
In order to protect the user security data, provided is a memory card capable of preventing the data leakage to a third party not having the access authority by imposing the limitation on the number of password authentications and automatically erasing the data. In a system comprised of a multimedia card and a host machine electrically connected to the multimedia card and controlling the operations of the multimedia card, a retry counter for storing the number of password authentication failures is provided and the upper limit of the number of failures is registered in a register. When passwords are repeatedly entered once, twice, . . . and n times and the retry counter which counts the entries reaches the upper limit of the number of failures, the data is automatically erased so as not to leave the data in the flash memory.
摘要:
A memory card is provided with a transfer control circuit, a write control circuit and a judging circuit. The transfer control circuit outputs a transfer flag signal during the data transfer. The write control circuit outputs an internal busy signal during the data write operation. The judging circuit outputs a transfer interruption signal when a card selection signal of the host is negated during the input of the transfer flat signal and also outputs a suspension signal when the card selection signal is negated during the input of the internal busy signal. A CPU invalidates the data being transfer to interrupt the transfer process upon reception of the transfer interruption signal and completes, upon reception of the suspension signal, the process being executed and stays in the waiting condition. Consequently, even when the timing signal not conforming to the standards is transferred, the host can select the optimum processing operation from the internal processing conditions and thereby execute the selected operation.