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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2017
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Xiangyu Tang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ken Hu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Xiaobing Lee, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yunxiang Wu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Addison, TX (US);
Abstract
A method performed by a processor to improve wear-leveling in a cross-point (XD) memory, comprises detecting, by a processor coupled to the XD memory, a trigger event, wherein the XD memory comprises a first section of memory units and a second section of memory units, and in response to detecting the trigger event, relocating, by the processor, data stored in a first memory unit of the first section of memory units to a memory unit adjacent to a last memory unit of the first section of memory units, and relocating, by the processor, data stored in a first memory unit of the second section of memory units to a memory unit adjacent to a last memory unit of the second section of memory units.