Patent ID: 7209997

Claim:
A method of operating a controller device, comprising: outputting a value to a memory device; outputting a first operation code to the memory device, wherein the first operation code instructs the memory device to store the value in a register of the memory device; outputting a block size value to the memory device, wherein the block size value indicates an amount of read data to be output by the memory device in response to a second operation code; outputting the second operation code to the memory device, wherein the second operation code instructs the memory device to perform a read operation, wherein the second operation code includes precharge information that indicates whether the memory device should precharge sense amplifiers on the memory device after sensing data corresponding to the read operation; and after a read delay following the outputting of the second operation code, sampling a first portion of the read data output by the memory device in response to the second operation code, wherein the read delay is selected to correspond to the value output to the memory device for storage in the register.