Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Bad page and bad block management in memory
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Application No.: US15491744Application Date: 2017-04-19
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Publication No.: US10223018B2Publication Date: 2019-03-05
- Inventor: Kiran Gunnam , Robert Mateescu
- Applicant: SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Applicant Address: US TX Addison
- Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Current Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Addison
- Agency: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G11C16/10 ; G11C16/26 ; G11C16/34 ; G06F17/30 ; G11C8/06 ; G11C8/14 ; G11C16/08 ; G11C29/00 ; G11C29/44 ; G11C16/04 ; G11C29/04

Abstract:
The amount of remapping data in a file system of a memory device is reduced. In one aspect, for each request access, e.g., read or write operation, the memory cells of a primary physical address are evaluated. If the evaluation indicates the memory cells are good, the read or write operation proceeds. If the memory cells have a failure such as uncorrectable errors, the primary physical address is hashed to obtain an auxiliary physical address. If the auxiliary physical address is not available, the primary physical address can be hashed again to obtain another auxiliary physical address. In another aspect, per-page remapping is performed until a threshold number of bad pages in a block are detected, after which the entire block is remapped. In another aspect, pages of a block are remapped to auxiliary pages based on a block identifier.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180307431A1 Bad Page And Bad Block Management In Memory Public/Granted day:2018-10-25
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