Patent 7554856 was granted and assigned to Qimonda on June, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of reading memory includes sensing a plurality of memory cells simultaneously and providing a data signal corresponding to one of a plurality of programming states. The plurality of programming states include a number of programming states equal to twice a number of memory cells in the plurality of memory cells. The data signal is processed, providing binary data representative of the data signal. The binary data includes a number of information bits equal to the number of memory cells.