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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2021
Applicant:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Inventor:
Meng Wei, Shanghai, CN;
Assignee:
MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC., Boise, ID (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/14 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G11C 16/16 (2006.01); G11C 16/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/14 (2013.01); G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G11C 16/16 (2013.01); G11C 16/32 (2013.01);
Abstract
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include erasing a portion of memory from a garbage pool in response to detecting an idle period. A request to write data to the memory is received and it is determined that a charge gain threshold has not been satisfied for the erased portion of memory. The data is written to the erased portion of memory in response to determining the charge gain threshold has not been satisfied.