Method for writing and reading data in an electrically erasable and programmable nonvolatile memory

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PATENT NO 8694716
APP PUB NO 20100106896A1
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12604175

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A method for writing and reading data in a main nonvolatile memory having target pages in which data are to be written and read, the method including providing a nonvolatile buffer having an erased area, providing a volatile cache memory, and receiving a write command to update a target page with updating data the length of which can be lower than the length of a page. The method also includes, in response to the write command, writing the updating data into the erased area of the nonvolatile buffer, together with management data of a first type, and recording an updated version of the target page in the cache memory or updating in the cache memory a previously updated version of the target page.

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STMICROELECTRONICS NVWTC SCHIPHOL AIRPORT SCHIPHOL BOULEVARD 265 BH LUFTHAVEN SCHIPOL AMSTERDAM 1118
STMICROELECTRONICS DESIGN AND APPLICATION GMBHWERNER-VON-SIEMENS RING 3-5 GRASSBRUNN 85630

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Bildgen, Marco Habere Poche, FR 14 81
Boehler, Juergen Munich, DE 10 57

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