Invention Application
- Patent Title: MEMORY DEVICES AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS HAVING A HYBRID CACHE WITH STATIC AND DYNAMIC CELLS, AND RELATED METHODS
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Application No.: US15269518Application Date: 2016-09-19
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Publication No.: US20180081543A1Publication Date: 2018-03-22
- Inventor: Kishore K. Muchherla , Ashutosh Malshe , Sampath K. Ratnam , Peter Feeley , Michael G. Miller , Christopher S. Hale , Renato C. Padilla
- Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G06F12/0893

Abstract:
A memory device having a memory controller is configured to operate a hybrid cache including a dynamic cache including XLC blocks and a static cache including the SLC blocks. The memory controller is configured to disable at least one of the static cache or the dynamic cache. A method of operating a memory device includes partitioning a memory array into a first portion of SLC blocks and a second portion of XLC blocks, storing at least a portion of host data into the first portion of SLC blocks as a static cache; and storing at least another portion of the host data into the second portion of XLC blocks in an SLC mode as a dynamic cache responsive to a burst of host data being determined to be greater than the static cache can handle. Additional memory devices, methods, and computer systems are also described.
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