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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023
Filed:
May. 27, 2021
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Kishore K. Muchherla, Fremont, CA (US);
Ashutosh Malshe, Fremont, CA (US);
Preston A. Thomson, Boise, ID (US);
Michael G. Miller, Boise, ID (US);
Sampath K. Ratnam, Boise, ID (US);
Renato C. Padilla, Folsom, CA (US);
Peter Feeley, Boise, ID (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure includes memory blocks erasable in a single level cell mode. A number of embodiments include a memory comprising a plurality of mixed mode blocks and a controller. The controller may be configured to identify a particular mixed mode block for an erase operation and, responsive to a determined intent to subsequently write the particular mixed mode block in a single level cell (SLC) mode, perform the erase operation in the SLC mode.