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Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 13, 2019
Applicant:

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mahim Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);

Rohan Dhekane, San Jose, CA (US);

Aaron Lee, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/38 (2006.01); G11C 29/44 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/38 (2013.01); G11C 11/5628 (2013.01); G11C 11/5642 (2013.01); G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 16/26 (2013.01); G11C 29/44 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01); G11C 2216/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

Identifying a faulty memory die in a non-volatile memory storage system. Various methods include: commencing a programming operation of a multi-state block of a subject die, the programming operation including populating a transfer data latch with a first set of data and transferring the data to a first data latch, populating the transfer data latch with a second set of data and transferring the data to second data latch, arranging the first and second data sets in a suitable format of the multi-state block, and writing the data sets to the multi-state block; prior to populating the transfer data latch with the second data set, performing a program suspend and read operation thereby populating the transfer data latch with read data; and comparing the read data to the data contained in the first data latch and, if the comparison results in a match, identifying the subject die as faulty.


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