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Am29PDL129H
August 8, 2003
P R E L I M I N A R Y
Standby Mode
When the system is not reading or writing to the de-
vice, it can place the device in the standby mode. In
this mode, current consumption is greatly reduced,
and the outputs are placed in the high impedance
state, independent of the OE# input.
The device enters the CMOS standby mode when the
CE1#, CE2# and RESET# pins are all held at V
IO
± 0.3
V. (Note that this is a more restricted voltage range
than V
IH
.) If CE1#, CE2#, and RESET# are held at V
IH
,
but not within V
IO
± 0.3 V, the device will be in the
standby mode, but the standby current will be greater.
The device requires standard access time (t
CE
) for
read access when the device is in either of these
standby modes, before it is ready to read data.
If the device is deselected during erasure or program-
ming, the device draws active current until the
operation is completed.
I
CC3
in the
DC Characteristics
table represents the
CMOS standby current specification.
Automatic Sleep Mode
The automatic sleep mode minimizes Flash device en-
ergy consumption. The device automatically enables
this mode when addresses remain stable for t
ACC
+
150 ns. The automatic sleep mode is independent of
the WE# and OE# control signals. Standard address
access timings provide new data when addresses are
changed. While in sleep mode, output data is latched
and always available to the system. Note that during
automatic sleep mode, OE# must be at V
IH
before the
device reduces current to the stated sleep mode spec-
ification. I
CC5
in the
DC Characteristics
table repre-
sents the automatic sleep mode current specification.
RESET#: Hardware Reset Pin
The RESET# pin provides a hardware method of re-
setting the device to reading array data. When the RE-
SET# pin is driven low for at least a period of t
RP
, the
device immediately terminates any operation in
progress, tristates all output pins, and ignores all
read/write commands for the duration of the RESET#
pulse. The device also resets the internal state ma-
chine to reading array data. The operation that was in-
terrupted should be reinitiated once the device is
ready to accept another command sequence, to en-
sure data integrity.
Current is reduced for the duration of the RESET#
pulse. When RESET# is held at V
SS
±0.3 V, the device
draws CMOS standby current (I
CC4
). If RESET# is held
at V
IL
but not within V
SS
±0.3 V, the standby current will
be greater.
The RESET# pin may be tied to the system reset cir-
cuitry. A system reset would thus also reset the Flash
memory, enabling the system to read the boot-up firm-
ware from the Flash memory.
If RESET# is asserted during a program or erase op-
eration, the RY/BY# pin remains a “0” (busy) until the
internal reset operation is complete, which requires a
time of t
READY
(during Embedded Algorithms). The
system can thus monitor RY/BY# to determine
whether the reset operation is complete. If RESET# is
asserted when a program or erase operation is not ex-
ecuting (RY/BY# pin is “1”), the reset operation is com-
pleted within a time of t
READY
(not during Embedded
Algorithms). The system can read data t
RH
after the
RESET# pin returns to V
IH
.
Refer to the
AC Characteristics
tables for RESET# pa-
rameters and to
Figure 14
for the timing diagram.
Output Disable Mode
When the OE# input is at V
IH
, output from the device is
disabled. The output pins (except for RY/BY#) are
placed in the highest Impedance state