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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2017
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Donggun Kim, Hwaseong-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Yong Ju Kim, Seoul, KR;
Do Sun Hong, Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;
SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
A memory apparatus and a method of wear-leveling of a memory apparatus may be provided. The memory apparatus may include a memory having a plurality of storage blocks and a plurality of free blocks. The memory apparatus may include a memory controller configured for performing a first global wear-leveling to move data of a first storage block, which is a hot block among the storage blocks, to a first free block among the free blocks. The memory apparatus may include a memory controller configured for remapping a result of a logic operation of a logical page address of each of the pages in the first storage block and a first security refresh key to a physical page address of each of the pages in the first free block.