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Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2026

Filed:

Mar. 05, 2025
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Inventors:

Won Jae Lee, Suwon-si, KR;

Ho Jin Nam, Suwon-si, KR;

Jin In So, Suwon-si, KR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/1642 (2013.01); G06F 13/4022 (2013.01); G06F 13/4282 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is provided a memory device including a memory controller with reduced power consumption. The memory device includes a first volatile memory including a first logical memory device and a CXL memory controller that controls operations of the first volatile memory and receive requests for the first volatile memory from a host through a CXL interface including a CXL switch. The CXL memory controller includes a coarse-grained global counter configured to count a number of requests received store a count value, a global hotness monitor configured to determine, based on respective ones of the count values, whether each memory unit is a hot unit or a cold unit, a hotness tracker controller configured to generate a first bitmap and a first hotness tracker configured to determine, based on the first bitmap, whether data stored in each of the plurality of segments included in the first logical memory device is hot.


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