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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2021
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon, KR;
Inventor:
Dae Sung Kim, Icheon, KR;
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Icheon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/42 (2006.01); G11C 29/44 (2006.01); H03M 13/11 (2006.01); G11C 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/42 (2013.01); G11C 29/1201 (2013.01); G11C 29/4401 (2013.01); H03M 13/1108 (2013.01); H03M 13/1111 (2013.01);
Abstract
An ECC decoder includes: a memory comprising a memory region; a first converter configured to transmit a hard bit, received from a channel, to the memory to store the hard bit in a first area of the memory region; a second converter configured to receive the hard bit read from the first area and output a reliability value corresponding to the hard bit, whenever a hard decoding operation on the hard bit is iterated; and a variable node configured to perform the hard decoding operation using the reliability value.