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US 2006/0069849 A1Published application
Methods and apparatus to update information in a memory
OwnerJohn Rudelicinventor
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Abstract
A method and apparatus to update information in a memory is provided. The apparatus may be a nonvolatile memory that may include a control circuit to swap the physical addresses of a first block and a second block of the nonvolatile memory as part of an operation to update information stored in the first block, wherein the control circuit is internal to the nonvolatile memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims33
A method to update information stored in a first block of a nonvolatile memory, comprising:
- swapping the physical addresses of the first block and a second block of the nonvolatile memory as part of an operation to update the information stored in the first block.
A nonvolatile memory having a first block and a second block, comprising:
- a control circuit to swap the physical addresses of the first block and the second block as part of an operation to update information stored in the first block, wherein the control circuit is internal to the nonvolatile memory.
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- an antenna coupled to the processor;
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- a flash electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) coupled to the processor, wherein the processor is external to the flash EEPROM and wherein the flash EEPROM comprises a control circuit to swap the physical addresses of the first block and the second block as part of an operation to update information stored in the first block, wherein the control circuit is internal to the nonvolatile memory.
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