Micron Technology Incorporated

Dupont Safety & Construction, Inc.

Lodestar Licensing Group LLC

Qing Liang

Jonathan Scott Parry

Deping He

Nadav Grosz

David Aaron Palmer

Stephen D Hanna

Kulachet Tanpairoj

Christian M Gyllenskog

Sean L Manion

Jun Huang

Giuseppe Cariello

Xiangang Luo

Michele Piccardi

Jeremy Binfet

Yang Lu

Qisong Lin

Shuai Xu

Tao Song

Min Du

Mingke Yu

Devices and techniques are disclosed herein for more efficiently exchanging large amounts of data between a host and a storage system. In an example, a read command can optionally include a read-type indicator. The read-type indicator can allow for exchange of a large amount of data between the host and the storage system using a single read command.

Large data read techniques

Methods, systems, and devices for memory systems having a selectively interfaceable memory subsystem are described. A memory system may include the memory subsystem that may be configurable to provide volatile storage, nonvolatile storage, or both to a host system. The memory subsystem may include a plurality of ports each capable of communicating with the host system using different interfaces. The memory subsystem may be dynamically configurable to perform different functions based on the demands of the host system. In some examples, memory systems described herein may include a first memory subsystem to provide nonvolatile storage to the host system, a second memory subsystem to provide volatile storage to the host system, and a third memory subsystem configurable to provide volatile storage or nonvolatile storage or both to the host system.

Memory system with selectively interfaceable memory subsystem

Methods, systems, and devices related to host identification for a memory system are described. A memory system may receive an index value from a host system that is associated with an identification of the host system. The memory system may identify one or more operating parameter associated with the index value based on receiving the index value. The memory system controller may configure the memory system to utilize one or more operating parameters associated with the index value based on identifying the operating parameters. The memory system may output an indication to the host system that the operating parameters associated with the index value are configured to be utilized by the memory system.

Host identification supporting memory system operating parameter customization

Apparatus and methods are disclosed, including using a memory controller to partition a memory array into a first portion and a second portion, the first portion and second portion having non-overlapping logical block addressing (LBA) ranges. The memory controller assigns a first granularity of a first logical-to-physical (L2P) mapping table entry for the first portion of the memory array designated for a first usage, and a second granularity of a second L2P mapping table entry for the second portion of the memory array designated for a second usage, where the second granularity is not equal to the first granularity. The memory controller stores the first granularity and the second granularity in the memory array, and stores at least a portion of the first L2P mapping table entry and the second L2P mapping table entry in an L2P cache of the memory controller.

Sequential data optimized sub-regions in storage devices

Techniques for access operation status signaling for memory systems are described. In some examples, a memory system may respond to access commands from a host system by performing access operations such as read or write operations. In accordance with examples as disclosed herein, a system may be configured to support access operation status signaling between a host system and a memory system, which may improve the ability of the system to adapt to various access scenarios, including when access operation completion is delayed. For example, when a memory system is performing an error recovery or media management operation, the memory system may indicate that the error recovery or media management operation is being performed or is otherwise ongoing. Such status signaling may indicate that the memory system is actively performing operations, which may be used to inhibit a reset or reinitialization by a host system.

Access operation status signaling for memory systems

An example memory sub-system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is configured to receive a reset signal from a host computer system in communication with the memory system; identify, by decoding the reset signal, a host event specified by the reset signal; and process the identified host event.

Notifying memory system of host events via modulated reset signals

Systems and methods are disclosed, including moving host data stored in volatile memory of the storage system to non-volatile memory of the storage system and transitioning a storage system power status of a unidirectional power state signal interface from an active power status to a low power status.

Storage device deep idle power mode

Devices and techniques are disclosed herein for more efficiently performing random write operation for a memory device. In an example, a method of operating a flash memory device can include receiving a write request at a flash memory device from a host, the write request including a first logical block address and write data, saving the write data to a location of the flash memory device having a first physical address, operating the flash memory device in a first mode when an amount of write data associated with the write request is above a threshold, operating the flash memory device in a second mode when an amount of write data is below the threshold, and comparing the amount of write data to the threshold.

L2P translation techniques in limited RAM systems to increase random write performance using multiple L2P caches

Systems and methods for adapting garbage collection (GC) operations in a memory device to a host write activity are described. A host write progress can be represented by an actual host write count relative to a target host write count. The host write activity may be estimated in a unit time such as per day, or accumulated over a specified time period. A memory controller can adjust an amount of memory space to be freed by a GC operation according to the host write progress. The memory controller can also dynamically reallocate a portion of the memory cells between a single level cell (SLC) cache and a multi-level cell (MLC) storage according to the host write progress.

Garbage collection adapted to host write activity

In various embodiments, a technique can be provided to address debug efficiency for failures found on an operational system. The approach can make use of an existing pin on a memory device with added logic to respond to a trigger signal structured different from a signal that is normally sent to the existing pin on the memory device such that the memory device performs a normal or routine function of the memory device in response to the signal. In response to detecting one or more error conditions associated with the memory device, a system that interfaces with the memory device can generate the trigger signal to the memory device. In response to receiving the trigger signal, the memory device can dump an error log of the memory device to a memory component in the memory device. The error log can later be retrieved from the memory component for failure analysis.

Real-time trigger to dump an error log

Methods, systems, and devices for read prediction during a system boot procedure are described. A memory device may identify a command for a boot procedure and transfer data stored in a memory array to a cache of the memory device. In some cases, the memory device may prefetch data used during the boot procedure and thereby improve the latency of the boot procedure. When the memory device receives a command that requests data stored in the memory array as part of the boot procedure, the memory device may identify a cache hit based on prefetching the requested data before the command is received. In such cases, the memory device may retrieve the prefetched data from the cache.

Read prediction during a system boot procedure

Methods, systems, and devices for power architecture for non-volatile memory are described. A memory device may be configured to operate in a first mode and a second mode (e.g., a low power mode). When operating in the first mode, a voltage may be supplied from a power source (e.g., a power management integrated circuit) to a memory array and one or more associated components via a regulator. When the memory device transitions to operate in the second mode, some of the components supplied from the power source may be powered by a charge pump. Control information associated with the memory array may be stored to the one or more components (e.g., to a cache) that are powered by a charge pump.

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