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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2012
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Zhengang Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Hao Zhong, Milpitas, CA (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A memory device includes a memory array comprising multi-level memory cells, and control circuitry coupled to the memory array. The control circuitry is configured to perform accelerated soft read operations on at least a portion of the memory array. A given one of the accelerated soft read operations directed to a non-upper page of the memory array comprises at least one hard read operation directed to a corresponding upper page of the memory array. The given accelerated soft read operation may comprise a sequence of multiple hard read operations including a hard read operation directed to the non-upper page and one or more hard read operations directed to the corresponding upper page.