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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2016
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;
Chun-Yi Chen, Hsinchu, TW;
Chun-Hui Chen, Hsinchu, TW;
SILICON MOTION, INC., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;
Abstract
The present invention provides a data storage device including a flash memory and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a first read operation to read a first page corresponding to a first word line of the flash memory according to a read command of a host, and perform a distribution-adjustment procedure when data read by the first read operation cannot be recovered by coding, wherein the controller is further configured to perform an adjustable read operation to read a second page corresponding to a second word line of the flash memory in the distribution-adjustment procedure.