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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
May. 30, 2008
Tatsuo Hirose, Hamura, JP;
Hidehito Izawa, Hanno, JP;
Tatsuo Hirose, Hamura, JP;
Hidehito Izawa, Hanno, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a data refresh apparatus which refreshes data stored in a storage device having storage areas, comprises an error detector configured to detect a number of errors of data stored in a storage area of the storage device, an error correction unit configured to execute an error correction for the data stored in the storage area and generate corrected data, a refresh unit configured to write the corrected data to one of the storage areas, and a refresh controller configured to control an operation cycle of the refresh unit according to a number of times of write operations with respect to the storage area.