Seagate Technology Incorporated

Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Zhimin Dong

Erich Franz Haratsch

Zhengang Chen

Yu Cai

Peng Xu

Jiangang Wu

Nanshan Shu

Yingyi Ju

Systems and method relating generally to solid state memory, and more particularly to systems and methods for recovering data from a solid state memory. In one embodiment, the systems and methods include providing a flash memory circuit including a superset of memory cells, accessing a data set from a group of memory cells using a standard reference value to distinguish bit values in the group of memory cells, and based at least in part on determining that the group of memory cells was a last written group of memory cells, re-accessing a data set from the group of memory cells using a last written reference value to distinguish bit values in the group of memory cells.

Systems and methods for last written page handling in a memory device

An apparatus having a processor and an interface to a nonvolatile memory having a plurality of blocks is disclosed. The processor is configured to (i) monitor a number of reads since a respective erase in at least one of the blocks in the nonvolatile memory, (ii) move a page from a first block to a second block in response to the number of reads exceeding a first threshold where the first block is partially programmed and (iii) move the page from the first block to the second block in response to the number of reads exceeding a second threshold where the first block is fully programmed. The first threshold is less than the second threshold.

Read disturb handling in NAND flash

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