G11C2029/0411

PROGRAMMING CODEWORDS FOR ERROR CORRECTION OPERATIONS TO MEMORY
20230005563 · 2023-01-05 ·

The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for programming codewords for error correction operations to memory. An embodiment includes a memory having a plurality of groups of memory cells, wherein each respective one of the plurality of groups includes a plurality of sub-groups of memory cells, and circuitry configured to program a portion of a codeword for an error correction operation to one of the plurality of groups of memory cells by determining an address in that group of memory cells by performing an XOR operation on an address of one of the plurality of sub-groups of that group of memory cells, and programming the portion of the codeword to the determined address.

Memory system and data processing system including the same
11544063 · 2023-01-03 · ·

A data processing system includes a compute blade generating a write command to store data and a read command to read the data, and a memory blade. The compute blade has a memory that stores information about performance characteristics of each of a plurality of memories, and determines priority information through which eviction of a cache line is carried out based on the stored information.

Read recovery control circuitry

An apparatus includes an error correction component coupled to read recovery control circuitry. The error correction component can be configured to perform one or more initial error correction operations on codewords contained within a managed unit received thereto. The read recovery control circuitry can be configured to receive the error corrected codewords from the error correction component and determine whether codewords among the error corrected codewords contain an uncorrectable error. The read recovery control circuitry can be further configured to determine that a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) codeword included in the plurality of error corrected codewords contains the uncorrectable error, request that codewords among the error corrected codewords that contain the uncorrectable error are rewritten in response to the determination, and cause the plurality of error corrected codewords to be transferred to a host coupleable to the read recovery control circuitry.

Mobile data storage

A mobile electronic device may include a memory device and a memory controller including an error correction code (ECC) encoder to encode data, a constrained channel encoder configured to encode an output of the ECC encoder based on one or more constraints, a reinforcement learning pulse programming (RLPP) component configured to identify a programming algorithm for programming the data to the memory device, an expectation maximization (EM) signal processing component configured to receive a noisy multi-wordline voltage vector from the memory device and classify each bit of the vector with a log likelihood ration (LLR) value, a constrained channel decoder configured to receive a constrained vector from the EM signal processing component and produce an unconstrained vector, and an ECC decoder configured to decode the unconstrained vector. A machine learning interference cancellation component may operate based on or independent of input from the EM signal processing component.

SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD
20220413748 · 2022-12-29 · ·

A semiconductor memory device and an operation method capable of suppressing malfunctions and the like and performing safe operations are provided. A flash memory of the disclosure includes a controller which controls an operation based on a code read from a ROM. The operation method of the disclosure includes detecting whether the code read from the ROM has an error by a CRC processing unit; determining whether to transition to a safe mode when the code having the error is detected; and detecting and correcting the error of the code by an ECC processing unit after transitioning to the safe mode.

MEMORY, OPERATION METHOD OF MEMORY, AND OPERATION METHOD OF MEMORY SYSTEM
20220413713 · 2022-12-29 ·

A method for operating a memory includes: performing an error check operation; detecting N bad sections during the error check operation, where N is an integer equal to or greater than 1; stopping the error check operation in response to the detecting of the N bad sections; transferring information on the N bad sections to a memory controller; and resuming the error check operation in response to the transferring of the information on the N bad sections to a memory controller.

SHARED ERROR CORRECTION CODING CIRCUITRY

Methods, systems, and devices for shared error correction coding (ECC) circuitry are described. For example, a memory device configured with shared ECC circuitry may be configured to receive data at the shared circuitry from either a host device or a set of memory cells of the memory device. The shared circuitry may be configured to generate a set of multiple syndromes associated with a cyclic error correction code, based on the received data. As part of an encoding process, an encoder circuit may generate a set of parity bits based on the generated syndromes. As part of a decoding process, a decoder circuit may generate an error vector for decoding the received data, based on the generated syndromes. The decoder circuit may also correct one or more errors in the received data based on generating the error vector.

Method, memory controller, and memory system for reading data stored in flash memory
11537469 · 2022-12-27 · ·

An exemplary method for reading data stored in a flash memory includes: selecting an initial gate voltage combination from a plurality of predetermined gate voltage combination options; controlling a plurality of memory units in the flash memory according to the initial gate voltage combination, and reading a plurality of bit sequences; performing a codeword error correction upon the plurality of bit sequences, and determining if the codeword error correction successful; if the codeword error correction is not successful, determining an electric charge distribution parameter; determining a target gate voltage combination corresponding to the electric charge distribution parameter by using a look-up table; and controlling the plurality of memory units to read a plurality of updated bit sequences according to the target gate voltage combination.

Adaptive watchdog in a memory device

Devices and techniques for an adjustable watchdog in a memory device are disclosed herein. A memory operation command is received at a first time with a memory device from a host. A reset signal is received, with the memory device from the host, at a second time following the first time. A time interval between the first time and the second time is measured. A delay interval for a timer in the memory device to reset the memory device independently of receiving a further reset signal from the host is established based on the measured time interval.

MEMORY
20220406362 · 2022-12-22 ·

A memory includes: a plurality of row lines; a plurality of column lines; and a plurality of memory cells each of which is coupled to one row line among the row lines and one column line among the column lines, wherein memory cells corresponding to a row line which is selected based on a row address among the row lines are simultaneously activated, and data are read from memory cells corresponding to column lines which are selected based on a column address among the activated memory cells, and the selected column lines are not adjacent to each other.