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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2018
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventor:
Eun-Soo Jang, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/0882 (2016.01); G06F 12/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 12/06 (2013.01); G06F 12/0882 (2013.01);
Abstract
A controller includes: a counter suitable for counting a number of valid pages in each of a plurality of blocks in a memory device as first parameter values; a block selector suitable for selecting one or more first candidate blocks, the first parameter value of each of which is within a predetermined range, and selecting a victim block among the one or more first candidate blocks; and a processor suitable for controlling the memory device to read valid data stored in the victim block and program the valid data into a target block in the memory device.