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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Nir Tishbi, Kfar Saba, IL;
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for data storage, includes circuitry and a plurality of memory cells. The circuitry is configured to store data in a group of multiple memory cells by writing multiple respective input storage values to the memory cells in the group, to read respective output storage values from the memory cells in the group after storing the data, to generate for the output storage values multiple respective confidence levels, to produce composite data that includes the output storage values, to test a predefined condition that depends on the confidence levels, upon detecting that the condition is met, to compress the confidence levels to produce compressed soft data, and include the compressed soft data in the composite data, and to transfer the composite data over an interface to a memory controller.