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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2017
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Divya Prasad, East Delhi, IN;
Sainath Viswasarai, Hyderabad, IN;
Gopu S, Trivandrum, IN;
Swaroop Kaza, Campbell, CA (US);
Piyush Anil Dhotre, Bengaluru, IN;
Chittoor Devarajan Sunilkumar, Bengaluru, IN;
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products for enhanced erase retry of a non-volatile storage device are disclosed. An apparatus includes a non-volatile storage device and a controller. A controller includes a verification component configured to detect that an erase operation performed on an erase block of a non-volatile storage device is unsuccessful. A controller includes a parameter component configured to adjust one or more erase parameters for an erase operation. One or more erase parameters may be associated with one or more select gate drain storage cells of an erase block. A controller includes an erase component configured to retry an erase operation on an erase block with one or more adjusted erase parameters.