Micron Technology Incorporated

Sandisk Technologies Inc.

Zhenming Zhou

Murong Lang

Tingjun Xie

Yu-Chung Lien

Zhenlei Shen

Zhongguang Xu

Jian Huang

Jiangli Zhu

Ching-Huang Lu

Li-Te Chang

Seungjune Jeon

Deepanshu Dutta

Dana Lee

Mikai Chen

Wei Wang

Charles See Yeung Kwong

Nagendra Prasad Ganesh Rao

Gerrit Jan Hemink

Jun Wan

Guirong Liang

Wenzhou Chen

Frederick Adi

Peng Zhang

Masaaki Higashitani

Ying Yu Tai

Henry Chin

Ting Luo

Fangfang Zhu

Christina Papagianni

Sead Zildzic, Jr

Xiang Yang

Jianmin Huang

Bo Lei

Yang Lu

Chih-Kuo Kao

Tomer Eliash

Yi-Chieh Chen

Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu

Zhengang Chen

Huai-Yuan Tseng

Xiangang Luo

Jung Sheng Hoei

Dengtao Zhao

Michael G Miller

Mohan Dunga

Gautam Ashok Dusija

Aaron Lee

Xiying Costa

Juane Li

Mrinal Kochar

Sarath Chandran Puthenthermadam

Chris Nga Yee Avila

Pitamber Shukla

Guang Hu

Charles S Kwong

Arash Hazeghi

Sead Zildzic

Vinh Q Diep

Paing Z Htet

Lei Lin

Vivek Shivhare

Ronit Roneel Prakash

Cynthia Hua-Ling Hsu

Chandu Gorla

Thomas Fiala

Hanping Chen

Joshua Garrison

A system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform operations including: identifying a block of the memory device, the block spanning over a plurality of decks; determining whether a set of memory cells of the memory device is disposed in a first deck of the block or a second deck of the block, the first deck having a memory reliability metric satisfying a first criterion pertaining to a reliability of a deck, and the second deck having a memory reliability metric not satisfying the first criterion; selecting, based on the determination, an erase policy for performing an erase operation with respect to the set of memory cells; and causing the erase operation to be performed with respect to the set of memory cells in accordance with the erase policy.

Selection of erase policy in a memory device

A system includes a memory device with multiple cells and a processing device to perform operations including: identifying a group of wordlines, each connected to a subset of cells, and assigning a specified charge loss classification value to that group. The operations can also include selecting a page level, selecting a first set of cells, determining, for the first set of cells, a value of a first data state metric, identifying a second set of cells charged to a specified charge state, and determining a value of a second data state metric. The operations can also include maintaining a skew counter of the second data state metric, identifying and updating a read reference voltage offset, as well as applying the updated read reference voltage offset in a read operation.

Dynamic read calibration

Aspects of the present disclosure configure a system component, such as a memory sub-system controller, to generate virtual or superblocks using multiple partial good blocks. The controller identifies a first partial good block (PGB) in a set of memory components, the first PGB having first subset of word line groups (WGRs) that are categorized as being non-defective. The controller searches for a second PGB in the set of memory components having a second subset of WGRs that are categorized as being non-defective. The controller computes a total quantity of WGRs based on the first quantity of WGRs in the first subset of WGRs and a second quantity of WGRs in the second subset of WGRs and, in response, combines the first PGB and the second PGB to form an individual virtual block.

Generating virtual blocks using partial good blocks

Methods, systems, and apparatuses include receiving a command directed to a portion of memory. A cycle number for the portion of memory is determined. A group to which the portion of memory belongs is determined. A sensing time is determined using the cycle number and the group. The command is executed using the sensing time.

Adaptive sensing time for memory operations

Methods, systems, and apparatuses include determining an erase policy for a memory device. An erase operation is selected based on the determined erase policy, where the erase operations include an alternating erase operation and a uniform erase operation. The erase operation is executed on a portion of memory.

Dynamic erase operation selection using erase policy

A processing device is operatively coupled to an array of memory cells. The processing device determines that a media endurance metric value for a string of the array of memory cells satisfies a first threshold criterion based on a first threshold value. The processing device further controls, based on the media endurance metric value, a ramp rate of a program pulse applied to a wordline of the string.

Single-level cell programming with adaptive wordline ramp rate

A processing device in a memory sub-system detects an occurrence of a data integrity check trigger event in the memory sub-system, and in response, identifies a memory die of a plurality of memory dies in the memory sub-system. The processing device further determines a read margin associated with a first distribution of memory cells of the identified memory die, and determines an adaptive scan frequency for the identified memory die based on the read margin associated with the first distribution of memory cells.

Adaptive integrity scan in a memory sub-system

A memory device can include a memory device coupled with a processing device. The processing device causes a first erase operation to be performed at a block, where the first erase operation causes a pre-program voltage and a first erase voltage having a first magnitude to be applied to the block. The processing device causes an erase detection operation to be performed at the block. The processing device determines that the block fails to satisfy the erase detection operation responsive to causing the erase detection operation to be performed. The processing device further causes a second erase operation to be performed at the block responsive to determining that the block failed the erase detection operation, where the second erase operation causes a second erase voltage having a second magnitude to be applied to the block.

Low stress refresh erase in a memory device

A method for receiving a request for performing a programming operation on one or more memory blocks of a memory device, identifying a value of a media endurance metric associated with the one or more memory blocks, determining a programming voltage offset corresponding to the value of the media endurance metric, and performing, using the programming voltage offset, the programming operation on the one or more memory blocks. The method further includes identifying a program-verify voltage level associated with the one or more memory blocks, determining a program-verify voltage offset associated with the program-verify voltage level and the value of the media endurance metric, and performing, using the program-verify voltage level and the program-verify voltage offset, a program-verify operation on the one or more memory blocks.

Modification of program voltage level with read or program-verify adjustment for improving reliability in memory devices

Aspects of the present disclosure configure a system component, such as memory sub-system controller, to perform empty page scan operations. The controller selects a portion of the set of memory components that is empty and ready to be programmed. The controller reads one or more signals from the selected portion of the set of memory components. The controller generates an error count value representing whether the portion of the set of memory components is valid for programming based on a result of reading the one or more signals from the selected portion. The controller updates a scan frequency for performing the empty page scan operations for the portion of the set of memory components based on the error count value.

Empty page scan operations adjustment

Methods, systems, and apparatuses include determining to apply a read retry operation to a portion of memory. The likelihood of a read retry timeout meeting a threshold is determined. A reverse trim setting is selected in response to determining the likelihood of the read retry timeout meets the threshold. The read retry operation is executed using the selected trim setting.

Dynamic read retry voltage sequences in a memory subsystem

A plurality of memory device life metrics are determined, where one of the plurality of memory device life metrics comprises a read count metric that specifies a number of read operations performed on the memory device. A plurality of normalized metric values are calculated, where each of the normalized metric values is based on a ratio of a respective memory device life metric to a respective lifetime target value associated with the respective memory device life metric. A normalized metric value that satisfies a selection criterion is identified from the plurality of normalized metric values. The identified normalized metric value corresponds to an amount of used device life of the memory device. An amount of remaining device life of the memory device is determined based on the identified normalized metric value. An indication of the amount of remaining device life is provided to a host system.

Monitoring memory device health according to data storage metrics

A threshold criterion of a plurality of threshold criteria is identified based on a current program-erase cycle (PEC) count of a first block of a memory device, wherein the first block is configured as quad-level cell (QLC) memory. A raw bit error rate (RBER) associated with data of a second block of the memory device is determined, wherein the second block is configured as single-level cell (SLC) memory. It is determined that the RBER associated with the data of the second block satisfies the threshold criterion. In response to determining that the RBER satisfies the threshold criterion, the data of the second block is written to the first block.

Managing an adaptive data path selection threshold for a memory sub-system

In some implementations, a memory device may detect a read command associated with reading data stored by the memory device. The memory device may determine whether the read command is from a host device in communication with the memory device. The memory device may select, based on whether the read command is from the host device, one of a first voltage pattern or a second voltage pattern to be applied to memory cells of the memory device to execute the read command, wherein the first voltage pattern is selected if the read command is from the host device and the second voltage pattern is selected if the read command is not from the host device, wherein the second voltage pattern is different from the first voltage pattern. The memory device may execute the read command using a selected one of the first voltage pattern or the second voltage pattern.

Memory read operation using a voltage pattern based on a read command type

Implementations described herein relate to a memory device with a fast write mode to mitigate power loss. In some implementations, the memory device may detect a condition associated with power supplied to the memory device. The memory device may detect one or more pending write operations to be performed to cause data to be written to memory cells of the memory device. The memory device may switch from a first voltage pattern, previously used by the memory device to write data to one or more memory cells of the memory device, to a second voltage pattern based on detecting the condition and based on detecting the one or more pending write operations. The memory device may perform at least one write operation, of the one or more pending write operations, using the second voltage pattern.

Memory device with fast write mode to mitigate power loss

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