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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2020
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/34 (2006.01); G11C 16/16 (2006.01); G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/16 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G11C 16/26 (2013.01); G11C 16/3431 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7207 (2013.01);
Abstract
An operation method of a memory system may include monitoring the size of a programmable area included in each of a plurality of open blocks in which a plurality of data having different attributes are stored, respectively, and generating a first free block by performing a first erase operation on a part of a plurality of erase target blocks based on the number of first open blocks, each open block of which the programmable area has a size less than a threshold value, among the plurality of open blocks.