A family of software-hardware cooperative mechanisms to accelerate intra-thread duplication leverage the register file error detection hardware to implicitly check the data from duplicate instructions, avoiding the overheads of instruction checking and enforcing low-latency error detection with strict error containment guarantees.

A set of superblocks can be constructed by a memory controller employing good blocks and partially bad blocks in a plurality of memory access units. Each functional memory access unit among the plurality of memory access units contributes a single block that is a good block or a partially bad block to each superblock. The memory controller can further construct a set of super word line zones within each superblock in the set of superblocks. Each block within a superblock contributes a good word line zone to each super word line zone. Upon encounter of a program error at run time, the super word line zones within the superblock may be modified to continue running the program employing modified super word line zones for the superblock.

An operating method of a controller, comprising: generating, when a first ECC decoding operation to codeword read from a semiconductor memory device according to a hard read voltage fails, an optimization information corresponding the result of the first ECC decoding operation; generating one or more quantization intervals determined by the optimization information; and performing a second ECC decoding operation to codeword read from the semiconductor memory device according to soft read voltages determined by the quantization intervals and the hard read voltage, wherein the optimization information includes: deterioration information of a memory block; ECC decoder parameter information; and constituent code parameter information.

A set of superblocks can be constructed by a memory controller employing good blocks and partially bad blocks in a plurality of memory access units. Each functional memory access unit among the plurality of memory access units contributes a single block that is a good block or a partially bad block to each superblock. The memory controller can further construct a set of super word line zones within each superblock in the set of superblocks. Each block within a superblock contributes a good word line zone to each super word line zone. Upon encounter of a program error at run time, the super word line zones within the superblock may be modified to continue running the program employing modified super word line zones for the superblock.

Apparatuses and methods for determining soft data for fractional digit memory cells are provided. One example apparatus can include a controller to determine states of memory cells of a group of memory cells operated as fractional digit memory cells, and determine soft data based, at least partially, on dimensions to which particular memory cells correspond with respect to the group of memory cells, determined states of the memory cells with respect to a state adjacent a state corresponding to a swapping shell, and whether a particular memory cell is a candidate for swapping.

Apparatuses and methods for determining soft data for fractional digit memory cells are provided. One example apparatus can include a controller to determine states of memory cells of a group of memory cells operated as fractional digit memory cells, and determine soft data based, at least partially, on dimensions to which particular memory cells correspond with respect to the group of memory cells, determined states of the memory cells with respect to a state adjacent a state corresponding to a swapping shell, and whether a particular memory cell is a candidate for swapping.

Provided is a method for memory recovery, the method including detecting, by a first memory controller, an error associated with a primary memory, receiving, by the first memory controller, information including a recovery code from an interface, and modifying, by the first memory controller, the error on the primary memory based on the information.

In an arithmetic circuit, a first substitution circuit calculates p/2 first evaluation values by using a first input polynomial having first-order to s-th-order coefficients of the error locator polynomial. When the number of errors is t/2 or less, the arithmetic circuit outputs p pieces of information including: error position information calculated from the first evaluation values obtained by substituting p/2 first check values, and error position information calculated from a second evaluation values obtained by substituting the first check values into a second input polynomial having coefficients obtained by converting coefficients of the first input polynomial. When the number of errors is larger than t/2, the arithmetic circuit outputs p/2 pieces of error position information based on the first evaluation values and third evaluation values obtained by converting the second evaluation values obtained by a third polynomial having (s+1)-th-order to t-th-order coefficients of the error locator polynomial.

The present disclosure disclose decoders, decoding methods, memory systems, memory controllers and computer readable storage medium. The decoder comprises a first data processing circuit and a second data processing circuit coupled to the first data processing circuit; the first data processing circuit is configured to: perform a current check calculation using a current column of a check matrix and a current sub-matrix of a current flag matrix, and perform a current incremental check calculation on a result of the current check calculation and a previous syndrome to generate a current syndrome; the second data processing circuit is configured to: determine an error symbol in a next data block of the codeword, using one of the current syndrome or a previous syndrome and a next column of the check matrix, based on the current syndrome not satisfying a check condition; wherein the previous syndrome is generated prior to the current syndrome.