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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2017
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
A memory system includes a wear-leveling module detecting a hot memory block among a plurality of memory blocks based on the number of times write operations are performed on each of the memory blocks, and moving data from the hot memory block to a spare memory block, a counting unit counting the number of data movement from the hot memory block to the spare memory block, on each of memory regions formed by grouping the plurality of memory blocks, and output data movement counts, a first detection unit selecting one from the plurality of memory regions based on the data movement count, and detecting a cold memory block among memory blocks included in the selected memory region, and a management unit moving data from the cold memory block to the hot memory block, and managing the cold memory block as the spare memory block.