Micron Technology Incorporated

Sebastien Andre Jean

Jianmin Huang

Kulachet Tanpairoj

Greg A Blodgett

Ting Luo

Harish Reddy Singidi

Preston Allen Thomson

Kishore Kumar Muchherla

Ashutosh Malshe

Carla L Christensen

Apparatus and methods are disclosed, including providing available data operations for the storage system processor to a host processor, identifying data operations to be performed by the storage system processor, and assigning identified data operations to the storage system processor to reduce bus traffic between the host processor and the storage system processor, to improve host processor performance, and to reduce energy use by the host processor.

Managed NAND data compression

Devices and techniques are disclosed herein for providing an improved Replay Protected Memory Block (RPMB) data frame and command queue for communication between a host device and a memory device.

Replay protected memory block data frame

Devices and techniques for host accelerated operations in managed NAND devices are described herein. A host logical-to-physical (L2P) table of the NAND device has an associated map. Entries in the map correspond to one or more logical addresses (LA) and indicate whether the host L2P table is current for those LAs. If the table is not current, then a request will bypass the host L2P table, using a standard device L2P lookup instead. Otherwise, the host L2P table can be used.

Host accelerated operations in managed NAND devices

Apparatus and methods are disclosed, including enabling communication between a memory controller and multiple memory devices of a storage system using a storage-system interface, the multiple memory devices each comprising a device controller and a group of non-volatile memory cells, and compressing data using at least one of the device controllers prior to transfer over the storage-system interface to improve an effective internal data transmission speed of the storage system.

Internal communication interface management

Disclosed in some examples are systems, methods, memory devices, and machine readable mediums for a fast secure data destruction for NAND memory devices that renders data in a memory cell unreadable. Instead of going through all the erase phases, the memory device may remove sensitive data by performing only the pre-programming phase of the erase process. Thus, the NAND doesn't perform the second and third phases of the erase process. This is much faster and results in data that cannot be reconstructed. In some examples, because the erase pulse is not actually applied and because this is simply a programming operation, data may be rendered unreadable at a per-page level rather than a per-block level as in traditional erases.

Prioritized security

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, memory devices, machine readable mediums configured to intentionally degrade NAND performance when a value of a NAND health metric indicates a potential for failure to encourage users to replace or backup their devices before data loss occurs. For example, the system may track a NAND health metric and when that metric reaches a predetermined threshold or state, the system may intentionally degrade performance. This performance degradation may be more effective than a warning to effect device backup or replacement.

End of life performance throttling to prevent data loss

Secure erase for data corruption

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums that dynamically adjust the size of an L2P cache in a memory device in response to observed operational conditions. The L2P cache may borrow memory space from a donor memory location, such as a read or write buffer. For example, if the system notices a high amount of read requests, the system may increase the size of the L2P cache at the expense of the write buffer (which may be decreased). Likewise, if the system notices a high amount of write requests, the system may increase the size of the L2P cache at the expense of the read buffer (which may be decreased).

Dynamic L2P cache

Apparatus and methods are disclosed, including a memory device or a memory controller configured to supply supported voltages to a host, provide temperature throttling information to the host, or provide an indication that a host attempting to read a result was not the host that caused the placement of the result in a result register. Methods of operation are disclosed, as well as machine-readable medium and other embodiments.

RPMB improvements to managed NAND

Devices and techniques for implementing quality-of-service (QoS) parameters in a managed memory device having a number of memory dies are disclosed herein.

Managed multiple die memory QoS

Disclosed in some examples are memory devices which feature customizable Single Level Cell (SLC) and Multiple Level Cell (MLC) configurations. The SLC memory cells serve as a high-speed cache providing SLC level performance with the storage capacity of a memory device with MLC memory cells. The proportion of cells configured as MLC vs the proportion that are configured as SLC storage may be configurable, and in some examples, the proportion may change during usage based upon configurable rules based upon memory device metrics. In some examples, when the device activity is below an activity threshold, the memory device may skip the SLC cache and place the data directly into the MLC storage to reduce power consumption.

SLC cache management

Disclosed in some examples are memory devices which feature customizable Single Level Cell (SLC) and Multiple Level Cell (MLC) configurations. The configuration (e.g., the size and position) of the SLC cache may have an impact on power consumption, speed, and other performance of the memory device. An operating system of an electronic device to which the memory device is installed may wish to achieve different performance of the device based upon certain conditions detectable by the operating system. In this way, the performance of the memory device can be customized by the operating system through adjustments of the performance characteristics of the SLC cache.

Managed NVM adaptive cache management

Apparatus and methods are disclosed, including maintaining a first group of tagged data from a host device at contiguous physical locations on a group of non-volatile memory cells of a storage system during system management operations on the group of non-volatile memory cells including the first group of tagged data while the first group of tagged data remains stored on the storage system and prioritizing, in the storage system, commands associated with the first group of tagged data.

Managed NAND data tagging

Devices and techniques to reduce corruption of received data during assembly are disclosed herein. A memory device can perform operations to store received data, including preloaded data, in a first mode until the received data exceeds a threshold amount, and to transition from the first mode to a second mode after the received data exceeds the threshold amount.

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Meridian, ID, United States of America

Sebastien Andre Jean