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Interrupt-responsive non-volatile memory system and method

US7930589B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Analog Devices, Inc. · US

Inventors

Stéphane Lavastre · Moirans, FR
Kiernan Heffernan · Croom, IE
Patrick Hoefner Crowe · Limerick, IE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 14, 2006
Grant date	Apr 19, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 14, 2026

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02D10/00
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An interrupt-responsive non-volatile memory respond to an interrupt by aborting execution by a memory controller of a memory routine in a non-volatile memory, sets, a flag and executes an interrupt service routine; and upon completion of the interrupt service routine, in response to the flag, recovers the execution of the aborted memory routine.

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