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Title:
NONVOLATILE MEMORY AND MEMORY SYSTEM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2011108306
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a nonvolatile memory and a memory system capable of outputting saved corrected data when readout is generated in the same address as the saved data.

The memory system has a control section 220 for controlling access to a memory area 210, and the control section 220 includes: an error detecting and correcting function having a function of detecting an error of data read out from a data area and correcting the error; a save area 227 for holding the address and corrected data, when the data of specified address and ECC are read out from the memory area and the error is detected; and a validity/invalidity presentation section for showing whether the address held in the save area and the corrected data are valid or invalid. When a new address and the corrected data are registered in the save area, the validity/invalidity presentation section is set as validity, and when the data currently held in the save area become unnecessary, the validity/invalidity presentation section is set as invalidity.


Inventors:
KOSHIYAMA JUNICHI
NAKANISHI KENICHI
TSUTSUI KEIICHI
Application Number:
JP2009260705A
Publication Date:
June 02, 2011
Filing Date:
November 16, 2009
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Assignee:
SONY CORP
International Classes:
G11C16/06; G06F12/16; G11C16/02; G11C29/42
Domestic Patent References:
JPH06110793A1994-04-22
JP3068009B22000-07-24
JPS63271555A1988-11-09
JPH056313A1993-01-14
JP2008504637A2008-02-14
JP3937214B22007-06-27
JP2003248631A2003-09-05
JP2009512119A2009-03-19
JP2008225835A2008-09-25
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takahisa Sato