Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Woo Seong Cheong

Beom Kyu Shin

In-Su Kim

Alain Tran

Hyun Jin Choi

A memory controller includes an interface and a control module. The interface interfaces with a memory device which includes a plurality of dies that each include a plurality of blocks. The control module groups a plurality of blocks included in different dies and manages the plurality of blocks as a super block. The control module performs scheduling to alternately perform a program on a part of an Nth super block, wherein N is a natural number, and a phased erase on an N+1st super block, and the control module completes the program on the Nth super block and the erase on the Nth super block before the program on the N+1st super block starts.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Woo Seong Cheong