7. A memory device as defined in claim 6 , wherein the memory controller unit is further arranged to selectively configure the configurable port, in response to a second configuration command, to disable writing of the at least one second word to the selected row and to enable writing of the at least one first word to the selected row.
8. A memory device as defined in claim 7 , wherein the at least one first word comprises a data word and an error correction code word, and wherein the at least one second word comprises an applicative word.