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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2021
Applicant:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;

Inventors:

Che-Wei Hsu, Taichung, TW;

Hsin-Hsiang Tseng, Hsinchu, TW;

Assignee:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G06F 1/32 (2013.01); G06F 3/0625 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G11C 11/5628 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory device includes a non-volatile (NV) memory including a plurality of NV memory elements. A method for performing programming management of the NV memory includes: setting a programming sequence of the NV memory elements; determining a selection interval between each of the NV memory elements according to the programming sequence and a serial number of each of the NV memory elements; for a target NV memory element of the plurality of NV memory elements in the programming sequence, determining a serial number of an immediately previous NV memory element in the programming sequence according to the selection interval and a serial number of the target NV memory element; determining whether the immediately previous NV memory element is in a busy state; and only when the immediately previous NV memory element is not in the busy state, programming the target NV memory element.


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