control circuitry 870 decodes signals provided on control connections 872 from the processor 810 these signals are used to control the operations on the memory array 830 including data read data write program and erase operations the control circuitry 870 may be a state machine a sequencer or some other type of controller in one embodiment the control circuitry 870 executes the embodiments of the lower page read method of the present invention the flash memory device illustrated in fig8 has been simplified to facilitate a basic understanding of the features of the memory a more detailed understanding of internal circuitry and functions of flash memories are known to those skilled in the art fig9 is an illustration of an exemplary memory module 900 memory module 900 is illustrated as a memory card although the concepts discussed with reference to memory module 900 are applicable to other types of removable or portable memory e g usb flash drives and are intended to be within the scope of u201c memory module u201d as used herein in addition although one example form factor is depicted in fig9 these concepts are applicable to other form factors as well in some embodiments memory module 900 will include a housing 905 as depicted to enclose one or more memory.