US 11,990,188 B2
Semiconductor apparatus and continuous readout method
Naoaki Sudo, Kanagawa (JP); and Makoto Senoo, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp., Taichung (TW)
Filed by Winbond Electronics Corp., Taichung (TW)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/512,687.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-015609 (JP), filed on Feb. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0246217 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/26 (2006.01)
CPC G11C 16/26 (2013.01) [G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
8. A semiconductor apparatus, comprising:
a first array readout component, adapted to read data from a NAND first memory cell array;
a second array readout component, adapted to read data from a NAND second memory cell array;
a first holding component, adapted to hold the data read by the first array readout component;
a second holding component, adapted to hold the data read by the second array readout component;
an output component, adapted to output the data held by the first holding component and the second holding component in synchronization with a clock signal; and
a control component, adapted to control a readout action,
wherein, providing that the control component controls continuous readout of pages, the first array readout component reads a first data of a half page, the second array readout component reads a second data of a half page, and the output component outputs the first data and the second data alternately and continuously,
wherein the first holding component comprises: a first latch, adapted to hold the first data read by the first array readout component; and a second latch, adapted to hold the first data transferred from the first latch, wherein after the first data is transferred from the first latch to the second latch, a first data of a half page of a next page read by the first array readout component is held in the first latch; and
the second holding component comprises: a first latch, adapted to hold the second data read by the second array readout component; and a second latch, adapted to hold the second data transferred from the first latch, wherein after the second data is transferred from the first latch to the second latch, a second data of a half page of a next page read by the second array readout component is held in the first latch.