Micron Technology Incorporated

Sandisk Technologies Inc.

Zhongguang Xu

Murong Lang

Zhenming Zhou

Tingjun Xie

Jian Huang

Zhenlei Shen

Jiangli Zhu

Ugo Russo

Niccolo' Righetti

Charles See Yeung Kwong

Li-Te Chang

Nicola Ciocchini

Peng Zhang

Deepanshu Dutta

Yanli Zhang

Xiang Yang

Jianmin Huang

Zhengang Chen

Ching-Huang Lu

Huai-Yuan Tseng

Xiangang Luo

Jung Sheng Hoei

Yu-Chung Lien

Ting Luo

Dengtao Zhao

Fangfang Zhu

Seungjune Jeon

Jin Liu

Guang Hu

Lei Lin

Ronit Roneel Prakash

In some implementations, a memory device may determine that a power loss has occurred. The memory device may determine a last written page (LWP) location associated with an LWP of a block of a memory of the memory device. The memory device may determine one of: a word line group (WLG) associated with the LWP location and at least one WLG-dependent offset associated with the WLG, or a partial block (PB) fill ratio associated with the LWP location and at least one PB-fill-ratio-dependent offset associated with the PB fill ratio. The memory device may perform a power loss error detection procedure based on one of the at least one WLG-dependent offset or the at least one PB-fill-ratio offset by applying the one of the at least one WLG-dependent offset or the at least one PB-fill-ratio offset to at least one read reference voltage.

Power loss error detection using partial block handling

Methods, systems, and apparatuses include moving a portion of memory to a garbage pool in response to determining that the portion of memory is invalid. The portion of memory is erased in response to determining that the portion of memory is invalid. A request to move an additional portion of memory to a free pool from the garbage pool is received. A free pool includes a queue including erased portions of memory, which serve as next portions of memory to fulfill subsequent cursor requests. The erased portion of memory is moved from the garbage pool to the free pool.

Optimizing data reliability using erase retention

A processing device in a memory sub-system logically closes a block of a memory device to prevent additional program operations from being performed on the block. The processing device further causes one or more wordlines of the block to be programmed with padding data. The one or more wordlines are adjacent to a last wordline of the block programmed before the block was logically closed. In addition, the processing device causes a remaining set of wordlines of the block to be concurrently programmed to a single program state.

Partial block handling protocol in a non-volatile memory device

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

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

Aspects of the present disclosure configure a system component, such as a memory sub-system controller, to perform adaptive read level threshold voltage operations. The controller receives a request to program data into an individual portion of the set of memory components and determines whether the request comprises host data or non-user targeted space (NUTS) data. The controller conditionally defines a partition for the individual portion of the set of memory components based on whether the request comprises host data or the NUTS data. The controller associates the partition with a bin of a plurality of bins, each of the plurality of bins representing an individual read level offset used to access a charge distribution of data stored in the individual portion of the set of memory components.

Adaptive generation of memory partitions

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

Systems and methods are disclosed including a memory device and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device can perform operations comprising receiving, from a host system, an enhanced erase command referencing a block; performing a lookup to determine whether the block is marked in a grown bad block (GBB) data structure used to track blocks that have a defective select gate; and responsive to determining that the block is marked in the GBB data structure, discarding the enhanced erase command.

Performing select gate integrity checks to identify and invalidate defective blocks

A processing device in a memory sub-system initiates a partial block handling protocol for a closed block of a memory device, the block comprising a plurality of wordlines. The processing device further sends a first programming command to the memory device to program one or more wordlines of the block with first padding data having a first data pattern, wherein the one or more wordlines are adjacent to a last wordline of the block programmed before the block was closed. In addition, the processing device sends a second programming command to the memory device to program all of a set of remaining wordlines of the block with second padding data having a second data pattern comprising fewer bits of data per cell than the first data pattern.

Partial block handling in a non-volatile memory device

A command to read specific data stored at a memory die is received. A read operation is performed while operating both a memory controller and the memory die simultaneously at a first frequency. A processor determines whether a first error rate associated with the memory die satisfies a first error threshold criterion (e.g., UECC). Responsive to determining that the first error rate satisfies the first error threshold criterion, the read operation is repeated while operating at least one of the memory controller or the memory die at a second frequency that is different from the first frequency. The processor determines whether a second error rate associated with the memory die satisfies a second error threshold criterion. Responsive to determining that the second error rate satisfies the second error threshold criterion (e.g. UECC persists), determining that the read operation has failed.

Adaptive frequency control for high-speed memory devices

A request to perform a memory access operation on a plurality of memory cells of a memory device is received. In response to determining that the request is from a host, a first error recovery operation is performed, wherein the first error recovery operation is associated with a first plurality of demarcation voltages. In response to determining that the request is from a controller, a second error recovery operation is performed, wherein the second error recovery operation is associated with a second plurality of demarcation voltages, wherein the second plurality of demarcation voltages comprises a greater number of demarcation voltages than the first plurality of demarcation voltages.

Managing a hybrid error recovery process in a memory sub-system

Aspects of the present disclosure configure a system component, such as a memory sub-system controller, to perform adaptive read level threshold voltage operations. The controller determines a memory reliability value associated with an individual portion of the set of memory components and selects a partition closing time for the individual portion of the set of memory components based on the memory reliability value. The controller defines a partition of the individual portion of the set of memory components based on the partition closing time and associates the partition with a bin of a plurality of bins, each of the plurality of bins representing an individual read level threshold voltage against which a charge distribution of data stored in the individual portion of the set of memory components is compared to determine one or more logical values.

Adaptive memory partition closure time

A read operation is performed on a set of memory cells addressable by a first wordline (WL), wherein the set of memory cells is comprised by an open translation unit (TU_of memory cells of a memory device. Respective threshold voltage offset bins for each WL of a second plurality of WLs coupled to respective sets of memory cells comprised by the open TU are determined based on a threshold voltage offset bin associated with the first WL. Respective default threshold voltages for each WL of the first plurality of WLs are updated based on the respective threshold voltage offset bins for each WL of the second plurality of WLs.

Open translation unit management using an adaptive read threshold

A processing device in a memory sub-system initiates a partial block handling protocol for a closed block of a memory device. The block includes a plurality of wordlines. The processing device further sends a first programming command to the memory device to program one or more wordlines of the block with first padding data. The one or more wordlines are adjacent to a last wordline of the block programmed before the block was closed. In addition, the processing device sends a second programming command to the memory device to concurrently program a remaining set of the plurality of wordlines of the block to a threshold voltage.

A system includes a memory device having a plurality of memory cells and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is to determine to perform a rewrite on at least a portion of the plurality of memory cells. The processing device can determine that a number of rewrite operations at first subset of memory cells storing a first logic state fail to satisfy a threshold criterion. The processing device can also cause a rewrite of data stored at a second subset of memory cells storing a second logic state in response to determining the number of rewrite operations performed at the first subset of memory cells fail to satisfy the threshold criterion.

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