Patent ID: 8072809

Claim:
A data storing apparatus comprising: a controller; and a plurality of nonvolatile memories, wherein each of the nonvolatile memories comprises an address buffer for holding address information supplied from the controller and a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells, and is capable of receiving data from the controller and pulses supplied from the controller to program data into ones of nonvolatile memory cells thereof selected by the address information, and wherein the controller (i) transfers data to a first nonvolatile memory of the plurality of nonvolatile memories and supplies the pulses to the first nonvolatile memory, (ii) stops supplying the pulses to the first nonvolatile memory and ends the data transfer to the first nonvolatile memory, and after then (iii) is capable of starting the transfer of data to a second nonvolatile memory of the plurality of nonvolatile memories and supplying the pulses to the second nonvolatile memory.