Removable mother/daughter peripheral card

    公开(公告)号:US5887145A

    公开(公告)日:1999-03-23

    申请号:US781539

    申请日:1997-01-09

    摘要: A peripheral card having a Personal Computer ("PC") card form factor and removably coupled externally to a host system is further partitioned into a mother card portion and a daughter card portion. The daughter card is removably coupled to the mother card. In the preferred embodiment, a low cost flash "floppy" is accomplished with the daughter card containing only flash EEPROM chips and being controlled by a memory controller residing on the mother card. Other aspects of the invention includes a comprehensive controller on the mother card able to control a predefined set of peripherals on daughter cards connectable to the mother card; relocation of some host resident hardware to the mother card to allow for a minimal host system; a mother card that can accommodate multiple daughter cards; daughter cards that also operates directly with hosts having embedded controllers; daughter cards carrying encoded data and information for decoding it; and daughter cards with security features.

    Method for forming EEPROM with split gate source side injection
    32.
    发明授权
    Method for forming EEPROM with split gate source side injection 失效
    用分离栅源侧注入形成EEPROM的方法

    公开(公告)号:US5776810A

    公开(公告)日:1998-07-07

    申请号:US193707

    申请日:1994-02-09

    摘要: Novel memory cells utilize source-side injection, allowing very small programming currents. If desired, to-be-programmed cells are programmed simultaneously while not requiring an unacceptably large programming current for any given programming operation. In one embodiment, memory arrays are organized in sectors with each sector being formed of a single column or a group of columns having their control gates connected in common. In one embodiment, a high speed shift register is used in place of a row decoder to serially shift in data for the word lines, with all data for each word line of a sector being contained in the shift register on completion of its serial loading. In one embodiment, speed is improved by utilizing a parallel loaded buffer register which receives parallel data from the high speed shift register and holds that data during the write operation, allowing the shift register to receive serial loaded data during the write operation for use in a subsequent write operation. In one embodiment, a verification is performed in parallel on all to-be-programmed cells in a column and the bit line current monitored. If all of the to-be-programmed cells have been properly programmed, the bit line current will be substantially zero. If bit line current is detected, another write operation is performed on all cells of the sector, and another verify operation is performed. This write/verify procedure is repeated until verification is successful, as detected or substantially zero, bit line current.

    摘要翻译: 新型存储单元利用源侧注入,允许非常小的编程电流。 如果需要,对于任何给定的编程操作,被编程的单元被同时编程,而不需要不可接受的大的编程电流。 在一个实施例中,存储器阵列被组织在扇区中,其中每个扇区由单个列或一组具有共同连接的控制门的列组成。 在一个实施例中,代替行解码器来使用高速移位寄存器来对字线的数据进行串行移位,在其串行加载完成时扇区的每个字线的所有数据都包含在移位寄存器中。 在一个实施例中,通过利用并行加载的缓冲寄存器来提高速度,所述缓冲寄存器从高速移位寄存器接收并行数据,并且在写入操作期间保持该数据,从而允许移位寄存器在写操作期间接收串行加载的数据,以用于 后续写操作。 在一个实施例中,在列中的所有要编程的单元并行地执行验证,并监视位线电流。 如果所有待编程的单元都已被正确编程,则位线电流将基本为零。 如果检测到位线电流,则对扇区的所有单元执行另一写操作,并且执行另一验证操作。 重复此写/验证过程,直到验证成功,如检测到或基本为零,位线电流。

    Removable Mother/Daughter Peripheral Card
    33.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20100169561A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-07-01

    申请号:US12724286

    申请日:2010-03-15

    IPC分类号: G06F13/12 G06F12/02 G06F13/00

    摘要: A peripheral card having a Personal Computer (“PC”) card form factor and removably coupled externally to a host system is further partitioned into a mother card portion and a daughter card portion. The daughter card is removably coupled to the mother card. In the preferred embodiment, a low cost flash “floppy” is accomplished with the daughter card containing only flash EEPROM chips and being controlled by a memory controller residing on the mother card. Other aspects of the invention includes a comprehensive controller on the mother card able to control a predefined set of peripherals on daughter cards connectable to the mother card; relocation of some host resident hardware to the mother card to allow for a minimal host system; a mother card that can accommodate multiple daughter cards; daughter cards that also operates directly with hosts having embedded controllers; daughter cards carrying encoded data and information for decoding it; and daughter cards with security features.

    Removable mother/daughter peripheral card
    34.
    发明授权
    Removable mother/daughter peripheral card 有权
    可拆卸母/外围卡

    公开(公告)号:US07137011B1

    公开(公告)日:2006-11-14

    申请号:US10050429

    申请日:2002-01-15

    IPC分类号: G06F12/14 G06F12/00 G06F13/00

    摘要: A peripheral card having a Personal Computer (“PC”) card form factor and removably coupled externally to a host system is further partitioned into a mother card portion and a daughter card portion. The daughter card is removably coupled to the mother card. In the preferred embodiment, a low cost flash “floppy” is accomplished with the daughter card containing only flash EEPROM chips and being controlled by a memory controller residing on the mother card. Other aspects of the invention includes a comprehensive controller on the mother card able to control a predefined set of peripherals on daughter cards connectable to the mother card; relocation of some host resident hardware to the mother card to allow for a minimal host system; a mother card that can accommodate multiple daughter cards; daughter cards that also operates directly with hosts having embedded controllers; daughter cards carrying encoded data and information for decoding it; and daughter cards with security features.

    摘要翻译: 具有个人计算机(“PC”)卡形状因子并且可拆卸地耦合到主机系统外部的外围卡进一步被划分为母卡部分和子卡部分。 子卡可拆卸地耦合到母卡。 在优选实施例中,低成本闪存“软盘”是通过仅包含快闪EEPROM芯片的子卡并由驻留在母卡上的存储器控​​制器来控制的。 本发明的其它方面包括:母卡上的综合控制器,其能够控制可连接到母卡的子卡上的预定义的一组外围设备; 将一些主机驻地硬件重定位到母卡以允许最小的主机系统; 可容纳多张子卡的母卡; 子卡也直接与具有嵌入式控制器的主机操作; 携带编码数据的子卡和用于解码的信息; 和具有安全功能的子卡。

    Removable mother/daughter peripheral card
    35.
    发明授权
    Removable mother/daughter peripheral card 失效
    可拆卸母/外围卡

    公开(公告)号:US06981068B1

    公开(公告)日:2005-12-27

    申请号:US10734667

    申请日:2003-12-11

    摘要: A peripheral card having a Personal Computer (“PC”) card form factor and removably coupled externally to a host system is further partitioned into a mother card portion and a daughter card portion. The daughter card is removably coupled to the mother card. In the preferred embodiment, a low cost flash “floppy” is accomplished with the daughter card containing only flash EEPROM chips and being controlled by a memory controller residing on the mother card. Other aspects of the invention includes a comprehensive controller on the mother card able to control a predefined set of peripherals on daughter cards connectable to the mother card; relocation of some host resident hardware to the mother card to allow for a minimal host system; a mother card that can accommodate multiple daughter cards; daughter cards that also operates directly with hosts having embedded controllers; daughter cards carrying encoded data and information for decoding it; and daughter cards with security features.

    摘要翻译: 具有个人计算机(“PC”)卡形状因子并且可拆卸地耦合到主机系统外部的外围卡进一步被划分为母卡部分和子卡部分。 子卡可拆卸地耦合到母卡。 在优选实施例中,低成本闪存“软盘”是通过仅包含快闪EEPROM芯片的子卡并由驻留在母卡上的存储器控​​制器来控制的。 本发明的其它方面包括:母卡上的综合控制器,其能够控制可连接到母卡的子卡上的预定义的一组外围设备; 将一些主机驻地硬件重定位到母卡以允许最小的主机系统; 可容纳多张子卡的母卡; 子卡也直接与具有嵌入式控制器的主机操作; 携带编码数据的子卡和用于解码的信息; 和具有安全功能的子卡。

    Multi-state operation of dual floating gate array
    36.
    发明授权
    Multi-state operation of dual floating gate array 有权
    双浮栅阵列的多态操作

    公开(公告)号:US06704222B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-03-09

    申请号:US10266450

    申请日:2002-10-07

    IPC分类号: G11C1600

    摘要: Novel memory cells utilize source-side injection, allowing very small programming currents. If desired, to-be-programmed cells are programmed simultaneously while not requiring an unacceptably large programming current for any given programming operation. In one embodiment, memory arrays are organized in sectors with each sector being formed of a single column or a group of columns having their control gates connected in common. In one embodiment, a high speed shift register is used in place of a row decoder to serially shift in data for the word lines, with all data for each word line of a sector being contained in the shift register on completion of its serial loading. In one embodiment, speed is improved by utilizing a parallel loaded buffer register which receives parallel data from the high speed shift register and holds that data during the write operation, allowing the shift register to receive serial loaded data during the write operation for use in a subsequent write operation. In one embodiment, a verification is performed in parallel on all to-be-programmed cells in a column and the bit line current monitored. If all of the to-be-programmed cells have been properly programmed, the bit line current will be substantially zero. If bit line current is detected, another write operation is performed on all cells of the sector, and another verify operation is performed. This write/verify procedure is repeated until verification is successful, as detected or substantially zero, bit line current.

    摘要翻译: 新型存储单元利用源侧注入,允许非常小的编程电流。 如果需要,对于任何给定的编程操作,被编程的单元被同时编程,而不需要不可接受的大的编程电流。 在一个实施例中,存储器阵列被组织在扇区中,其中每个扇区由单个列或一组具有共同连接的控制门的列组成。 在一个实施例中,代替行解码器来使用高速移位寄存器来对字线的数据进行串行移位,在其串行加载完成时扇区的每个字线的所有数据都包含在移位寄存器中。 在一个实施例中,通过利用并行加载的缓冲寄存器来提高速度,所述缓冲寄存器从高速移位寄存器接收并行数据,并且在写入操作期间保持该数据,从而允许移位寄存器在写操作期间接收串行加载的数据,以用于 后续写操作。 在一个实施例中,在列中的所有要编程的单元并行地执行验证,并监视位线电流。 如果所有待编程的单元都已被正确编程,则位线电流将基本为零。 如果检测到位线电流,则对扇区的所有单元执行另一写操作,并且执行另一验证操作。 重复此写/验证过程,直到验证成功,如检测到或基本为零,位线电流。

    EEPROM with split gate source side injection
    37.
    发明授权
    EEPROM with split gate source side injection 失效
    带分流栅源的EEPROM注入

    公开(公告)号:US5910915A

    公开(公告)日:1999-06-08

    申请号:US65512

    申请日:1998-04-23

    摘要: Novel memory cells utilize source-side injection, allowing very small programming currents. If desired, to-be-programmed cells are programmed simultaneously while not requiring an unacceptably large programming current for any given programming operation. In one embodiment, memory arrays are organized in sectors with each sector being formed of a single column or a group of columns having their control gates connected in common. In one embodiment, a high speed shift register is used in place of a row decoder to serially shift in data for the word lines, with all data for each word line of a sector being contained in the shift register on completion of its serial loading. In one embodiment, speed is improved by utilizing a parallel loaded buffer register which receives parallel data from the high speed shift register and holds that data during the write operation, allowing the shift register to receive serial loaded data during the write operation for use in a subsequent write operation. In one embodiment, a verification is performed in parallel on all to-be-programmed cells in a column and the bit line current monitored. If all of the to-be-programmed cells have been properly programmed, the bit line current will be substantially zero. If bit line current is detected, another write operation is performed on all cells of the sector, and another verify operation is performed. This write/verify procedure is repeated until verification is successful, as detected or substantially zero, bit line current.

    摘要翻译: 新型存储单元利用源侧注入,允许非常小的编程电流。 如果需要,对于任何给定的编程操作,被编程的单元被同时编程,而不需要不可接受的大的编程电流。 在一个实施例中,存储器阵列被组织在扇区中,其中每个扇区由单个列或一组具有共同连接的控制门的列组成。 在一个实施例中,代替行解码器来使用高速移位寄存器来对字线的数据进行串行移位,在其串行加载完成时扇区的每个字线的所有数据都包含在移位寄存器中。 在一个实施例中,通过利用并行加载的缓冲寄存器来提高速度,所述缓冲寄存器从高速移位寄存器接收并行数据,并且在写入操作期间保持该数据,从而允许移位寄存器在写操作期间接收串行加载的数据,以用于 后续写操作。 在一个实施例中,在列中的所有要编程的单元并行地执行验证,并监视位线电流。 如果所有待编程的单元都已被正确编程,则位线电流将基本为零。 如果检测到位线电流,则对扇区的所有单元执行另一写操作,并且执行另一验证操作。 重复此写/验证过程,直到验证成功,如检测到或基本为零,位线电流。

    Removable Mother/Daughter Peripheral Card
    38.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20100205360A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-08-12

    申请号:US12765737

    申请日:2010-04-22

    IPC分类号: G06F12/02 G06F13/00 H04L9/30

    摘要: A peripheral card having a Personal Computer (“PC”) card form factor and removably coupled externally to a host system is further partitioned into a mother card portion and a daughter card portion. The daughter card is removably coupled to the mother card. In the preferred embodiment, a low cost flash “floppy” is accomplished with the daughter card containing only flash EEPROM chips and being controlled by a memory controller residing on the mother card. Other aspects of the invention includes a comprehensive controller on the mother card able to control a predefined set of peripherals on daughter cards connectable to the mother card; relocation of some host resident hardware to the mother card to allow for a minimal host system; a mother card that can accommodate multiple daughter cards; daughter cards that also operates directly with hosts having embedded controllers; daughter cards carrying encoded data and information for decoding it; and daughter cards with security features.

    Eeprom with split gate source side injection
    39.
    发明授权
    Eeprom with split gate source side injection 失效
    Eeprom采用分闸门源注入

    公开(公告)号:US06861700B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-03-01

    申请号:US10674737

    申请日:2003-09-29

    摘要: Novel memory cells utilize source-side injection, allowing very small programming currents. If desired, to-be-programmed cells are programmed simultaneously while not requiring an unacceptably large programming current for any given programming operation. In one embodiment, memory arrays are organized in sectors with each sector being formed of a single column or a group of columns having their control gates connected in common. In one embodiment, a high speed shift register is used in place of a row decoder to serially shift in data for the word lines, with all data for each word line of a sector being contained in the shift register on completion of its serial loading. In one embodiment, speed is improved by utilizing a parallel loaded buffer register which receives parallel data from the high speed shift register and holds that data during the write operation, allowing the shift register to receive serial loaded data during the write operation for use in a subsequent write operation. In one embodiment, a verification is performed in parallel on all to-be-programmed cells in a column and the bit line current monitored. If all of the to-be-programmed cells have been properly programmed, the bit line current will be substantially zero. If bit line current is detected, another write operation is performed on all cells of the sector, and another verify operation is performed. This write/verify procedure is repeated until verification is successful, as detected or substantially zero, bit line current.

    摘要翻译: 新型存储单元利用源侧注入,允许非常小的编程电流。 如果需要,对于任何给定的编程操作,被编程的单元被同时编程,而不需要不可接受的大的编程电流。 在一个实施例中,存储器阵列被组织在扇区中,其中每个扇区由单个列或一组具有共同连接的控制门的列组成。 在一个实施例中,代替行解码器来使用高速移位寄存器来对字线的数据进行串行移位,在其串行加载完成时扇区的每个字线的所有数据都包含在移位寄存器中。 在一个实施例中,通过利用并行加载的缓冲寄存器来提高速度,所述缓冲寄存器从高速移位寄存器接收并行数据,并且在写入操作期间保持该数据,从而允许移位寄存器在写操作期间接收串行加载的数据,以用于 后续写操作。 在一个实施例中,在列中的所有要编程的单元并行地执行验证,并监视位线电流。 如果所有待编程的单元都已被正确编程,则位线电流将基本为零。 如果检测到位线电流,则对扇区的所有单元执行另一写操作,并且执行另一验证操作。 重复此写/验证过程,直到验证成功,如检测到或基本为零,位线电流。

    EEPROM cell array structure with specific floating gate shape
    40.
    发明授权
    EEPROM cell array structure with specific floating gate shape 有权
    具有特定浮栅形状的EEPROM单元阵列结构

    公开(公告)号:US06664587B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-12-16

    申请号:US10236408

    申请日:2002-09-05

    IPC分类号: H01L3300

    摘要: Novel memory cells utilize source-side injection, allowing very small programming currents. If desired, to-be-programmed cells are programmed simultaneously while not requiring an unacceptably large programming current for any given programming operation. In one embodiment, memory arrays are organized in sectors with each sector being formed of a single column or a group of columns having their control gates connected in common. In one embodiment, a high speed shift register is used in place of a row decoder to serially shift in data for the word lines, with all data for each word line of a sector being contained in the shift register on completion of its serial loading. In one embodiment, speed is improved by utilizing a parallel loaded buffer register which receives parallel data from the high speed shift register and holds that data during the write operation, allowing the shift register to receive serial loaded data during the write operation for use in a subsequent write operation. In one embodiment, a verification is performed in parallel on all to-be-programmed cells in a column and the bit line current monitored. If all of the to-be-programmed cells have been properly programmed, the bit line current will be substantially zero. If bit line current is detected, another write operation is performed on all cells of the sector, and another verify operation is performed. This write/verify procedure is repeated until verification is successful, as detected or substantially zero, bit line current.

    摘要翻译: 新型存储单元利用源侧注入,允许非常小的编程电流。 如果需要,对于任何给定的编程操作,被编程的单元被同时编程,而不需要不可接受的大的编程电流。 在一个实施例中,存储器阵列被组织在扇区中,其中每个扇区由单个列或一组具有共同连接的控制门的列组成。 在一个实施例中,代替行解码器来使用高速移位寄存器来对字线的数据进行串行移位,在其串行加载完成时扇区的每个字线的所有数据都包含在移位寄存器中。 在一个实施例中,通过利用并行加载的缓冲寄存器来提高速度,所述缓冲寄存器从高速移位寄存器接收并行数据,并且在写入操作期间保持该数据,从而允许移位寄存器在写操作期间接收串行加载的数据,以用于 后续写操作。 在一个实施例中,在列中的所有要编程的单元并行地执行验证,并监视位线电流。 如果所有待编程的单元都已被正确编程,则位线电流将基本为零。 如果检测到位线电流,则对扇区的所有单元执行另一写操作,并且执行另一验证操作。 重复此写/验证过程,直到验证成功,如检测到或基本为零,位线电流。