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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2017
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/14 (2006.01); G11C 11/24 (2006.01); G11C 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11C 7/04 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/30 (2006.01); G11C 11/4093 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/141 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G11C 5/143 (2013.01); G11C 7/04 (2013.01); G11C 11/005 (2013.01); G11C 11/24 (2013.01); G11C 11/5628 (2013.01); G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 16/30 (2013.01); G11C 11/4093 (2013.01); G11C 2211/5641 (2013.01);
Abstract
A solid-state drive (SSD) may include a volatile buffer such as DRAM, a non-volatile memory (NVM) such as NAND Flash connected to the volatile buffer, and a capacitor connected to both, where the capacitor may have an energy capacity insufficient to supply the buffer and NVM using a normal supply voltage in a normal mode, but sufficient to supply the buffer and NVM using at least one reduced supply voltage in a temporary mode; and a related method may include programming data to the NVM by temporarily reducing the supply voltage to the NVM, and writing data to the NVM using the reduced supply voltage.