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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2016
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Aliasgar S. Madraswala, Folsom, CA (US);
Yogesh B. Wakchaure, Folsom, CA (US);
Camila Jaramillo, San Jose, CA (US);
Trupti Bemalkhedkar, Folsom, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A disclosed example to use an erase-suspend feature with a memory device includes sending, by a memory host controller, an erase-suspend enable setting and an erase segment duration value to the memory device. The erase-suspend enable setting is to cause the memory device to perform an erase operation as a plurality of erase segments and to suspend the erase operation between the erase segments. The erase segment duration value is to specify a length of time for the erase segments. The memory host controller initiates an erase operation to be performed at the memory device. When the erase operation is suspended, the memory host controller initiates a second memory operation to be performed at the memory device. After the memory host controller determines that the second memory operation is complete, the memory host controller initiates resumption of the erase operation.