DQ

Name

Logic Level

Definition

Note

7

Data

Polling

’1’

Erase Complete or erase

block in Erase Suspend

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 or data

of non erase block during

Erase Suspend

DQ

Program On-going

6

Toggle Bit

’-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-’

Erase or Program On-going

Successive reads output complementary

data on DQ6 while Programming or Erase

operations are on-going. DQ6 remains at

constant level when P/E.C. operations are

completed or Erase Suspend is

acknowledged.

DQ

Program Complete

’-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-’

Erase Complete or Erase

Suspend on currently

addressed block

5

Error Bit

’1’

Program or Erase Error

This bit is set to ’1’ in the case of

Programming or Erase failure.

’0’

Program or Erase On-going

4

Reserved

3

Erase

Time Bit

’1’

Erase Timeout Period Expired

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

possible command entry is Erase Suspend

(ES).

’0’

Erase Timeout Period

On-going

An additional block to be erased in parallel

can be entered to the P/E.C.

2

Toggle Bit

’-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-’

Chip Erase, Erase or Erase

Suspend on the currently

addressed block.

Erase Error due to the

currently addressed block

(when DQ5 = ’1’).

Indicates the erase status and allows to

identify the erased block

1

Program on-going, Erase

on-going on another block or

Erase Complete

DQ

Erase Suspend read on

non Erase Suspend block

1

Reserved

0

Reserved

Notes: 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 9. Status Bit

Code

E

G

W

A0

A1

A12-A18

Other

Addresses

DQ0-DQ7

Protected Block

Block Address

Don’t Care

01h

Unprotected Block

Block Address

Don’t Care

00h

Table 8. Read Block Protection with AS Instruction (EF = 0, EE = 1)

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