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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2020
Applicant:
Kioxia Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Makoto Kuribara, Yokohama Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
KIOXIA CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01); H03M 13/15 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01); G11C 16/26 (2013.01); H03M 13/1515 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile semiconductor memory having a plurality of blocks each including a plurality of memory cells, and a memory controller configured to calculate a bit error rate when reading data from a block of the blocks and obtain an equation representing temporal changes in the bit error rate for the block, and based on the obtained equation, determine, for the block, a timing for performing a next refresh operation by which data that have been written to the block are rewritten.