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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:
Apr. 23, 2024

Filed:

Feb. 17, 2022
Applicant:

Sandisk Technologies Llc, Addison, TX (US);

Inventors:

Hua-Ling Cynthia Hsu, Fremont, CA (US);

Aaron Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

SanDisk Technologies LLC, Addison, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7203 (2013.01);
Abstract

Technology is disclosed for a non-volatile memory system that decouples dataload from program execution. A memory controller transfers data for a program operation and issues a first type of program execution command. When in a coupled mode, the die programs the data in response to the first type of program execution command. When in a decoupled mode, rather than program the data into non-volatile memory cells the die enters a wait state. Optionally, the memory controller can instruct another die to execute a memory operation while the first die is in the wait state. In response to receiving a second type of program execution command from the memory controller when in the wait state, the first die will program the data into non-volatile memory cells. The memory controller may issue the second type of program execution command in response to determining that sufficient power resources (or thermal budget) exist.


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