US Patent Issued to GIGADEVICE SEMICONDUCTOR on July 14 for "System with MCU and flash memory and control method for deep power down control thereof" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,649, issued on July 14, was assigned to GIGADEVICE SEMICONDUCTOR INC. (Beijing).

"System with MCU and flash memory and control method for deep power down control thereof" was invented by Yang Gao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a system with an MCU and flash memory and a method for DPD control thereof. A new DPD mode (first DPD mode) is provided by simply adding a power supply pin to the MCU. The power supply pin is coupled to a power supply terminal of the flash memory. In a deep power down mode, the flash memory is configured to be entirely powered down, leading to even lower system power cons...