Writing to the device is accomplished by taking chip enable (CE) and write enable (WE) inputs LOW. Data on the eight I/O pins (I/O₀ through I/O₇) is then written into the location specified on the address pins (A₀ through A₁₆).

Reading from the device is accomplished by taking chip enable (CE) and output enable (OE) LOW while forcing write enable (WE) HIGH. Under these conditions, the contents of the memory location specified by the address pins will appear on the I/O pins.

The eight input/output pins (I/O₀ through I/O₇) are placed in a high-impedance state when the device is deselected (CE HIGH), the outputs are disabled (OE HIGH), or during a write operation (CE LOW, and WE LOW).

The CY7C1019 is available in standard 400-mil-wide SOJs.