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Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 18, 2019
Applicant:

SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Min Ho Her, Chungcheongbuk-do, KR;

Dong Hyun Kim, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Seung Il Kim, Chungcheongbuk-do, KR;

Youn Ho Jung, Chungcheongbuk-do, KR;

Assignee:

SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/16 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G11C 11/408 (2006.01); G11C 11/409 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/1677 (2013.01); G11C 11/409 (2013.01); G11C 11/4085 (2013.01); G11C 11/5628 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory system includes a memory device including a first memory region of higher density storage and a second memory region of lower density storage; and a controller configured to control the memory device to sequentially perform a backup program operation to the second memory region and perform coarse program and fine program operations to the first memory region for each of data chunks, wherein the controller controls, for at least two among the data chunks, the memory device to first perform the coarse program and then perform the fine program operation, and wherein the controller controls the memory device to perform the backup program operation without a program verify process.


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