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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2016
Applicant:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Andreas Lars Sandberg, Cambridge, GB;
Irenéus Johannes de Jong, Cambridge, GB;
Andreas Hansson, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G11C 29/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 11/1048 (2013.01); G11C 29/00 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7211 (2013.01); G11C 2029/0409 (2013.01);
Abstract
Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present technique provide an apparatus and methods for improved wear-levelling in non-volatile memory (NVM) devices. In particular, the present wear-levelling techniques operate on small blocks within a memory device, at a finer scale/granularity than that used by common wear-levelling techniques which often remap large blocks (e.g. several kilobytes) of data.