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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2021
Applicant:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Inventors:
Jianmin Huang, San Carlos, CA (US);
Xiangang Luo, Fremont, CA (US);
Chun Sum Yeung, San Jose, CA (US);
Kulachet Tanpairoj, San Mateo, CA (US);
Assignee:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus can include a block program erase count (PEC) component. The block PEC component can monitor a quantity of program erase counts (PECs) for each particular type of block of a non-volatile memory array. The block PEC component can further determine which block of the superblock to write host data to next based on the quantity of PECs. The block PEC component can further write host data to the determined block.