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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 06, 2016
Applicant:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;

Inventors:

Chun-Yi Chen, Hsinchu, TW;

Chun-Hui Chen, Hsinchu, TW;

Assignee:

SILICON MOTION, INC., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G11C 29/52 (2006.01); G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G11C 29/02 (2006.01); G11C 29/42 (2006.01); G11C 7/14 (2006.01); G11C 29/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/349 (2013.01); G06F 11/0703 (2013.01); G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); G06F 11/141 (2013.01); G11C 16/26 (2013.01); G11C 29/021 (2013.01); G11C 29/028 (2013.01); G11C 29/42 (2013.01); G11C 29/52 (2013.01); G06F 11/0727 (2013.01); G06F 11/1072 (2013.01); G11C 7/14 (2013.01); G11C 2029/0411 (2013.01);
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.


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