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One-chip microcomputer

US6418055B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateDec 9, 1999
Grant dateJul 9, 2002
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Expiry dateDec 9, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C16/14
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a one-chip microcomputer that incorporates a nonvolatile memory in which data can be electrically erased and data can be written and read, as a program memory, a reference nonvolatile memory group 40 which is lower in characteristic than a nonvolatile memory 7 in a memory cell array is disposed, and, on the basis of a result of reference of the reference nonvolatile memory group 40, the erase voltage of an erasing operation which is previously stored in a specific address region of the nonvolatile memory 7 is changed by a control circuit 44. On the basis of a result of reference of the reference nonvolatile memory group 40, the reference level of a reading operation of a sense amplifier which is previously stored in a specific address region of the nonvolatile memory 7 is changed by the control circuit 44.

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