Micron Technology Incorporated

Roberto Izzi

Luca Porzio

Danilo Caraccio

Marco Onorato

Alessandro Orlando

Paolo Amato

Daniele Balluchi

Emanuele Confalonieri

Marco Dallabora

Nicola Colella

Jonathan Scott Parry

Giuseppe Cariello

Reshmi Basu

Nadav Grosz

Christian M Gyllenskog

Erminio Di Martino

Ferdinando Pascale

Massimo Zucchinali

Sundararajan Sankaranarayanan

Massimo Iaculo

Xiangyu Tang

Dionisio Minopoli

Francesco Falanga

Rakeshkumar Dayabhai Vaghasiya

Sean L Manion

Andrea Vigilante

Tyler L Betz

Francesco Basso

Bryan D Butler

Alfredo Palazzo

Methods, systems, and devices for reliable and efficient boot logical unit access are described. For instance, a memory device may receive a request to write data to a boot logical unit of the memory device. The memory device may update a parameter from a first value to a second value based on receiving the request, the second value indicating a first stage of a procedure for updating the boot logical unit. The memory device may write, to a block of memory in the memory device, the data based on the parameter indicating the first stage of the procedure. Additionally or alternatively, the memory device may read a value of the parameter as part of a power up procedure and may perform a boot procedure using either first data at the boot logical unit or second data at the block of memory based on reading the value of the parameter.

Reliable and efficient boot logical unit access

Methods, systems, and devices are described to indicate, in an entry of logical to physical (L2P) mapping information stored at a host system, whether data associated with the entry is sequential to other data associated with a next entry or a previous entry. Each entry may have a third field, which may indicate whether the data is sequential. Based on the third field, the host system may determine whether data to be read from a memory system is sequential. The host system may transmit one read command to the memory system if the data is sequential, where the read command may include at least a portion of an L2P entry associated with the data. Similarly, based on the third field, the memory system may determine whether the data to be read is sequential, and may read additional, sequential data if the memory system determines that the data is sequential.

Reading sequential data using mapping information stored at a host device

Methods, systems, and devices for memory operations are described. A host system may obtain data for writing to a memory system. The host system may send, to the memory system, an indication that the data is to be written to the memory system, and the memory system may remove invalid data at the memory system until the memory system has sufficient resources to store the data. Based on the memory system having sufficient resources, the memory system may delay background operations at the memory system until the data has been written to the memory system. The memory system may also create a restore point based on the memory system having sufficient resources and receiving the data. In other examples, the removal of invalid data at the memory system may be delayed until after the data is written to the memory system.

Determining available resources for storing data

Methods, systems, and devices for hardware reset management for universal flash storage (UFS) are described. A UFS device may initiate a boot-up procedure that includes multiple phases. The UFS device may perform a first reset operation to reset one or more circuits based on receiving a first reset command during a first phase. The UFS device perform a second phase and may initiate a portion of a second reset operation to reset the one or more circuits during the second phase based on a likelihood that a second reset command is to be received. The UFS device may receive the second reset command during the second phase after initiating the portion of the second reset operation. The UFS device may initiate a second portion of the second reset operation based on receiving the second reset command and initiating the portion of the second reset operation.

Hardware reset management for universal flash storage

Methods, systems, and devices for latency reduction of boot procedures for memory systems are described. A memory system may receive a first command to perform a first reset of one or more components as part of a first phase of a boot procedure of a host system. The memory system may initiate an initialization process of a second phase of the boot procedure upon determining whether the value of a flag has been set from a first value to a second value. Upon completing the initialization process, the flag may be set to the first value. Parameters corresponding to the characteristics of the memory system may be communicated to the host system based on receiving a second command. The memory system may perform a configuration operation of a logical-to-physical mapping concurrently with communicating the parameters with the host system.

Latency reduction of boot procedures for memory systems

Methods, systems, and devices for commanded device states for a memory system are described. For example, a memory system may be configured with different device states that are each associated with a respective allocation of resources (e.g., feature sets) for operations of the memory system. Resource allocations corresponding to the different device states may be associated with different combinations of memory management configurations, error control configurations, trim parameters, degrees of parallelism, or endurance configurations, among other parameters of the memory system, which may support different tradeoffs between performance characteristics of the memory system. A host system may be configured to evaluate various parameters of operating the host system, and to transmit commands for a memory system to enter a desired device state of the memory system.

Commanded device states for a memory system

A processing device of a memory sub-system can monitor a plurality of received commands to identify a forced unit access command. The processing device can identify a metadata area of the memory device based on the forced unit access command. The processing device can also perform an action responsive to identifying a subsequent forced unit access command to the metadata area.

Storage traffic pattern detection in memory devices

Methods, systems, and devices for detecting page fault traffic are described. A memory device may execute a self-learning algorithm to determine a priority size for read requests, such as a maximum readahead window size or other size related to page faults in a memory system. The memory device may determine the priority size based at least in part on by tracking how many read requests are received for different sizes of sets of data. Once the priority size is determined, the memory device may detect subsequent read requests for sets of data having the priority size, and the memory device may prioritize or other optimize the execution of such read requests.

Detecting page fault traffic

A memory device includes an interface to communicate with a host, an array of memory cells, and a controller. The controller is configured to access the array of memory cells in response to commands from the host. The controller is further configured to enter an idle time in response to no commands from the host with queue empty, receive a first command from the host, and exit the idle time in response receiving a second command from the host. The controller is further configured to for a plurality of idle times, generate a history indicating a length of each idle time. The controller is further configured to predict the length of a subsequent idle time based on the history.

Memory devices including idle time prediction

Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for detection of shutdown patterns are described. A memory device may receive a set of commands from a host device. The memory device may determine whether the set of commands are associated with a shutdown procedure based on a pattern of the received set of commands. The memory device may initiate one or more operations associated with the shutdown procedure based on identifying that the set of commands are associated with the shutdown procedure. The memory device may receive a shutdown command for the shutdown procedure after initiating the one or more operations associated with the shutdown procedure. The memory device may determine that the set of commands are associated with the shutdown procedure based on a quantity of the set of commands, one or more types of the set of commands, other thresholds associated with the pattern, or a combination thereof.

Techniques for detection of shutdown patterns

Methods, systems, and devices for identification and storage of boot information at a memory system are described to support transferring boot information to higher reliability memory storage. A memory system may identify boot information stored at a memory array based on a command received from a host system, which may identify the boot information for the memory system, or based on performing a boot procedure with the host system, in which the boot information may be requested from the memory system. After identifying the boot information stored at the memory array, the memory system may move or transfer the boot information from physical addresses associated with lower reliable memory storage to physical addresses associated with higher reliable memory storage.

Identification and storage of boot information at a memory system

Methods, systems, and devices for usage level identification for memory device addresses are described. Systems, techniques, and devices are described herein in which a memory device may determine where to store data according to a level of usage of the data. The memory device may receive a write command indicating data to be written, a type of the data, and a logical address of a memory array for writing the data. The memory device may identify an entry associated with the logical address in a table that maps the logical address to a physical address of the memory array. The entry may include a field configured to maintain a level of usage for the logical address. The memory device may update the level of usage value according to a process and write the data to a physical address of the memory array based on the level of usage value.

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