Mass storage array and methods for operation thereof
US6975536B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 5, 2002 |
| Grant date | Dec 13, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 11, 2022 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG11C16/0475
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Apparatus including a virtual ground array, which includes memory cells connected in rows and columns to word lines and bit lines, respectively. The virtual ground array includes at least one block of data, and peripheral circuitry adapted to simultaneously access a plurality of subsets of the at least one block of data stored in the memory cells along at least one word line. Methods for operating the virtual ground array in a mass storage device include simultaneously accessing a plurality of subsets of at least one block of data stored in the memory cells along at least one word line.
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