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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2024
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods that may be performed by a universal flash storage (UFS) device of a computing device for configuring flash memory cells. Various embodiments may include setting a number of degraded triple-level cells (TLCs) attribute, and configuring at least one degraded TLC as at least one single-level cell (SLC) based on the number of degraded TLCs attribute, the at least one degraded TLC being not functional as a TLC and functional as an SLC. Some embodiments may include identifying the at least one degraded TLC based on at least one degradation attribute associated with the at least one degraded TLC, the at least one degradation attribute configured to indicate that the at least one degraded TLC is not functional as a TLC, and identifying an amount of degraded TLCs that are not functional as a TLC.