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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2017
Nxp Usa, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Ross S. Scouller, Austin, TX (US);
Melody B. Caron, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey C. Cunningham, Austin, TX (US);
NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
An embodiment for operation of an emulated electrically erasable (EEE) memory system includes a memory controller configured to identify a first quick record of a stack of quick records as a present record, wherein the stack of quick records are stored in a non-volatile portion of memory, the first quick record has a quick record status identifier (ID) that indicates the stack of quick records has not been qualified, determine a record status of a next record after the present record in the non-volatile portion of memory, and in response to a determination that the next record has a blank record status ID: update the next record from the blank record status ID to the quick record status ID, wherein the blank record status ID indicates that the next record is part of the stack of quick records, and qualify the present record using the plurality of program steps.