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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2024
Sandisk Technologies Llc, Addison, TX (US);
Adam Jacobvitz, San Jose, CA (US);
Piyush Dhotre, San Jose, CA (US);
Niles Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Juan Carlos Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Eran Sharon, Rishon Lezion, IL;
Idan Goldenberg, Rishon Lezion, IL;
Zhenni Wan, San Jose, CA (US);
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A storage device may speed up error correction by pre-characterizing weak cell information in a memory device. The storage device includes a memory device with cells that may store multiple bits. A controller executes a pre-characterization operation on the memory device to identify a slow cell and/or a fast cell on the memory device. The controller retrieves weak cell information for the slow cell and/or the fast cell. The controller converts the weak cell information into values used by an error correction engine and provides the values to the error correction engine to be used in decoding information retrieved from the memory device.