Instructions and Commands

The Command Interface (C.I.) latches commands

written to the memory. Instructions are made up

from one or more commands to perform Read

Array/Reset, Read Electronic Signature, Power

Down, Block Erase, Chip Erase, Program, Block

Erase Suspend and Erase Resume. Commands

are made of address and data sequences. Ad-

dresses are latched on the falling edge of W or E

and data is latched on the rising of W or E. The

instructions require from 1 to 6 cycles, the first or

first three of which are always write operations

used to initiate the command. They are followed by

either further write cycles to confirm the first com-

mand or execute the command immediately. Com-

mand sequencing must be followed exactly. Any

invalid combination of commands will reset the

device to Read Array. The increased number of

cycles has been chosen to assure maximum data

security. Commands are initialised by two preced-

ing coded cycles which unlock the Command Inter-

face. In addition, for Erase, command confirmation

is again preceeded by the two coded cycles.

P/E.C. status is indicated during command execu-

tion by Data Polling on DQ7, detectionof Toggle on

DQ

Name

Logic Level

Definition

Note

7

Data

Polling

’1’

Erase Complete

Indicates the P/E.C. status, check during

Program or Erase, and on completion

before checking bits DQ5 for Program or

Erase Success.

’0’

Erase on going

DQ

Program Complete

DQ

Program on going

6

Toggle Bit

’-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-’

Erase or Program on going

Successive read output complementary

data on DQ6 while Programming or Erase

operations are going on. DQ6 remain at

constant level when P/E.C. operations are

completed or Erase Suspend is

acknowledged.

’-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-’

Program (’0’ on DQ6)

Complete

’-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-’

Erase or Program

(’1’ on DQ6) Complete

5

Error Bit

’1’

Program or Erase Error

This bit is set to ’1’ if P/E.C. has exceded

the specified time limits.

’0’

Program or Erase on going

4

’1’

’0’

3

Erase

Time Bit

’1’

Erase Timeout Period Expired

P/E.C. Erase operation has started. Only

possible command entry is Erase Suspend

(ES). An additional block to be erased in

parallel can be entered to the P/E.C.

’0’

Erase Timeout Period on

going

2

Reserved

1

Reserved

0

Reserved

Note: Logic level ’1’ is High, ’0’ is Low. -0-1-0-0-0-1-1-1-0- represent bit value in successive Read operations.

Table 8. Status Register

DQ6, or Error on DQ5 and Erase Timer DQ3 bits.

Any read attempt during Program or Erase com-

mand executionwill automaticallyoutput those four

bits. The P/E.C. automatically sets bits DQ3, DQ5,

DQ6 and DQ7. Other bits (DQ0, DQ1, DQ2 and

DQ4) are reserved for future use and should be

masked.

Data Polling bit (DQ7). When Programming op-

erations are in progress, this bit outputs the com-

plement of the bit being programmed on DQ7.

During Erase operation, it outputs a ’0’. After com-

pletion of the operation, DQ7 will output the bit last

programmed or a ’1’ after erasing. Data Polling is

valid only effective during P/E.C. operation, that is

after the fourth W pulse for programming or after

the sixth W pulse for Erase. It must be performed

at the address being programmed or at an address

within the block being erased. If the byte to be

programmed belongs to a protectedblock the com-

mand is ignored. If all the blocks selected for era-

sure are protected, DQ7 will set to ’0’ for about

100

µs, and then return to previous addressed

memory data. See Figure 9 for the Data Polling

flowchart and Figure 10 for the Data Polling wave-

forms.

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