Patent ID: 7688643

Claim:
A nonvolatile memory system comprising: a nonvolatile memory including a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells and a shift register; and a control device coupled to said nonvolatile memory, wherein said control device is enabled to receive data from outside of said nonvolatile memory system and to apply said data to said nonvolatile memory, wherein said nonvolatile memory is enabled to operate a program operation, wherein in said program operation, said nonvolatile memory receives said data from said control device, stores said data to said shift register and stores said data in said shift register to ones of said nonvolatile memory cells, wherein said control device is enabled to receive data from outside of said nonvolatile memory system, while said nonvolatile memory is operating in said program operation, and wherein said shift register has a data storing capacity enabling the transfer of a unit of data of a length equal to the data length of said data to be stored at one time of said program operation, said data length being more than 1 byte.