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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2007
Sang-chul Kang, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Jin-yub Lee, Seoul, KR;
Sang-chul Kang, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Jin-yub Lee, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
According to an example embodiment, a method of changing a block size in a flash memory device having a multi-plane scheme may include decoding an external input address and changing the block size of the flash memory device from a first block size to a second block size. The external input address may be decoded into a block address and a page address. The block size of the flash memory device may be changed from the first block size to the second block size by shifting at least one bit of the block address to the page address or shifting at least one bit of the page address to the block address.