Memory system
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Jul 7, 2015
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Sep 25, 2014
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Jun 4, 2014
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Mar 7, 2008
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A memory system (10) is disclosed, which comprises a flash-EEPROM nonvolatile memory (11) having a plurality of memory cells that have floating gates and in which data items are electrically erasable and writable, a cache memory (13) that temporarily stores data of the flash-EEPROM nonvolatile memory (11), a control circuit (12, 14) that controls the flash-EEPROM nonvolatile memory (11) and the cache memory (13), and an interface circuit (16) that communicates with a host, in which the control circuit functions to read data from a desired target area to-be-determined of the flash-EEPROM nonvolatile memory and detect an erased area to determine a written area/unwritten area by using as a determination condition whether or not a count number of data “0” of the read data has reached a preset criterion count number.
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