Patent ID: 7813212

Claim:
A nonvolatile memory device comprising: a plurality of planes totaling three, five, six or seven in number, and said plurality of planes each comprising a data section, a spare fields section and a redundant column or columns section, and said plurality of planes each including a plurality of blocks with each said blocks divided into a number of pages and each said blocks defined along a first dimension by a first number of memory cells for storing data, and along a second dimension by a second number of memory cells for storing data, the nonvolatile memory device having a non-power of two capacity; a plurality of high voltage generators totaling less in number than the number of planes, a first of the plurality of high voltage generators for providing high voltages in connection with operations that occur in a first of the plurality of planes, a second of the plurality of high voltage generators for providing high voltages in connection with operations that occur in a second of the plurality of planes; and a plurality of row decoders in each said plurality of planes, and an at least substantially one-to-one relationship existing, in the nonvolatile memory device, for number of row decoders to number of pages, and each said row decoders configured to facilitate a read operation on an associated page of the nonvolatile memory device.