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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2020
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Beom Ju Shin, Suwon-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Yun Jung Yeom, Gunpo-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;
SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Abstract
A memory controller for controlling a memory device for storing data, the memory controller, the memory controller comprising: a request transmitter for providing a program suspend request for suspending a program operation, when the memory device receives a read request from a host while the memory device is performing the program operation and a command controller for generating and outputting a program suspend command, based on the program suspend request, and outputting a cache read command or normal read command, based on a number of commands corresponding to a request received from the host, which are queued in a command queue.