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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2018
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed is a memory system includes a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, a write operation management circuit configured to update write operation counts for the plurality of memory blocks, a first block detector configured to detect a hot memory block based on a first operation count value corresponding to the write operation count of a first memory block on which a write operation has been performed among the plurality of memory blocks, a second detector configured to detect a cold memory block based on a second operation count value corresponding to the write operation count of each of second memory blocks adjacent to the first memory block, and a controller configured to copy, if the hot memory block and the cold memory block are detected by the first and second detectors, data of the detected hot memory block or data of the detected cold memory block.