EN29LV160 Datasheet, PDF (17/45 Pages) Eon Silicon Solution Inc. – 16 Megabit (2048K x 8-bit / 1024K x 16-bit) Flash Memory Boot Sector Flash Memory, CMOS 3.0 Volt-only

EN29LV160
DQ6
Toggle Bit I
The EN29LV160 provides a “Toggle Bit” on DQ6 to indicate to the host system the status of the
embedded programming and erase operations. (See Table 6)
During an embedded Program or Erase operation, successive attempts to read data from the device
at any address (by toggling OE or CE ) will result in DQ6 toggling between “zero” and “one”. Once
the embedded Program or Erase operation is complete, DQ6 will stop toggling and valid data will be
read on the next successive attempts. During Byte Programming, the Toggle Bit is valid after the
rising edge of the fourth WE pulse in the four-cycle sequence. For Chip Erase, the Toggle Bit is
valid after the rising edge of the sixth-cycle sequence. For Sector Erase, the Toggle Bit is valid after
the last rising edge of the Sector Erase W E pulse.
In Byte Programming, if the sector being written to is protected, DQ6 will toggles for about 2 µs, then
stop toggling without the data in the sector having changed. In Sector Erase or Chip Erase, if all
selected blocks are protected, DQ6 will toggle for about 100 µs. The chip will then return to the read
mode without changing data in all protected blocks.
Toggling either CE or OE will cause DQ6 to toggle.
The flowchart for the Toggle Bit (DQ6) is shown in Flowchart 6. The Toggle Bit timing diagram is
shown in Figure 9.
DQ5 Exceeded Timing Limits
DQ5 indicates whether the program or erase time has exceeded a specified internal pulse count limit.
Under these conditions DQ5 produces a “1.” This is a failure condition that indicates the program or erase
cycle was not successfully completed. Since it is possible that DQ5 can become a 1 when the device has
successfully completed its operation and has returned to read mode, the user must check again to see if
the DQ6 is toggling after detecting a “1” on DQ5.
The DQ5 failure condition may appear if the system tries to program a “1” to a location that is previously
programmed to “0.” Only an erase operation can change a “0” back to a “1.” Under this condition, the
device halts the operation, and when the operation has exceeded the timing limits, DQ5 produces a “1.”
Under both these conditions, the system must issue the reset command to return the device to reading
array data.
DQ3 Sector Erase Timer
After writing a sector erase command sequence, the output on DQ3 can be used to determine whether or
not an erase operation has begun. (The sector erase timer does not apply to the chip erase command.)
When sector erase starts, DQ3 switches from “0” to “1.” This device does not support multiple sector
erase command sequences so it is not very meaningful since it immediately shows as a “1” after the first
30h command. Future devices may support this feature.
DQ2 Erase Toggle Bit II
The “Toggle Bit” on DQ2, when used with DQ6, indicates whether a particular sector is actively erasing
(that is, the Embedded Erase algorithm is in progress), or whether that sector is erase-suspended. Toggle
Bit II is valid after the rising edge of the final WE# pulse in the command sequence. DQ2 toggles when the
system reads at addresses within those sectors that have been selected for erasure. (The system may
use either OE# or CE# to control the read cycles.) But DQ2 cannot distinguish whether the sector is
actively erasing or is erase-suspended. DQ6, by comparison, indicates whether the device is actively
erasing, or is in Erase Suspend, but cannot distinguish which sectors are selected for erasure. Thus, both
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Rev. A, Issue Date: 2004/03/30