Skhynix Inc.

Cheon Ok Jeong

Duck Hoi Koo

Yong Kim

Soong Sun Shin

Yong Chul Kim

Yong Tae Kim

Young Guen Choi

Jang Hwan Jun

Dong Ham Yim

Young Hoon Cha

Dae Hoon Jang

Jeong Sun Park

A storage device may execute an erase operation on a first metadata memory block. The storage device may copy, to the first metadata memory block, all or some of metadata units stored in a second metadata memory block that is a metadata memory block on which the erase operation is to be executed after the erase operation is executed on the first metadata memory block.

Storage device managing metadata memory blocks each storing metadata units, and method of operating the same

A memory system, a memory controller and an operating method are disclosed. When a target command which instructs an operation of writing target data to a memory device is received from a host, the target data is divided into data units, and a first data unit among the data units is controlled such that the entire first data unit is written to the memory device or none of the first data unit is written to the memory device. As a consequence, it is possible to write data in specific units in a memory system using a multi-core.

Memory system, memory controller and operating method thereof

A data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory blocks and a controller for controlling the nonvolatile memory device. A plurality of management blocks includes first and second management blocks managed by the controller. The second management block stores start data and then stores integrity data. The first management block stores a storage location of the second management block. An integrity checker checks integrity of data associated with the first and second management blocks.

Data storage device and operating method thereof

A method for operating a data storage device which includes a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, includes generating a valid page count table including the number of valid pages of each of closed blocks among the plurality of memory blocks in which data are written in all pages thereof and the number of valid pages of at least one open block among the plurality of memory blocks in which data is written in a part of pages thereof; generating a valid page scan table including a scan pointer for scanning the number of valid pages of the open block; and backing up the valid page count table and the valid page scan table in a meta block among the plurality of memory blocks.

A data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device and a controller configured to control an operation of the nonvolatile memory device. The controller includes a volatile memory including a first index storage unit in which first index information for first data buffers are stored and a second index storage unit in which second index information for second data buffers are stored, a first central processing unit (CPU) configured to perform allocation and release of allocation of the first data buffers by accessing the first index storage unit of the volatile memory, and a second CPU configured to perform allocation and release of allocation of the second data buffers by accessing the second index storage unit of the volatile memory.

In a method of operating a data storage device including a non-volatile memory device, which includes a closed memory block and an open memory block, a scan pointer and a map scan information of the open memory block is generated. The scan pointer indicates a page next to a page to which a writing operation is completed. The map scan information includes a logical address information mapped in a page of the open memory block. When the data storage device is recovered from a power loss, the logical address information is read based on the map scan information. An address map is rebuilt based on the read logic address information.

Data storage device and method of operating the same

A method for operating a data storage device including a non-volatile memory device including a first region and a second region includes: storing data from a data cache memory in memory blocks in the first region; determining a first garbage collection cost with respect to a first target memory block having the least valid page among the memory blocks in the first region in which the data are kept; determining a second garbage collection cost with respect to a second target memory block having the least valid page among the memory blocks in the first region from which the data are cleared; and performing a garbage collection operation to copy valid data of a garbage collection target memory block into memory blocks in the second region based on a comparison result of the first garbage collection cost and the second garbage collection cost.

Data storage device and method for operating the same

A data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device including memory block groups and map data blocks, each memory block group including a first page group storing data transmitted from a host device and a second page group storing address mapping information corresponding to the data; and a controller configured to determine whether the number of valid data stored in a first memory block group in which the second page group is damaged is equal to or smaller than a size of an available capacity of an open map data block which is being used, and control, when the number of the valid data is equal to or smaller than the available capacity, the nonvolatile memory device to store address mapping information corresponding to the valid data of the first memory block group, in the open map data block.

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Cheon Ok Jeong