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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2006
Pantas Sutardja, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Zining Wu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Toai Doan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Aditya Ramamoorthy, Ames, IA (US);
Pantas Sutardja, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Zining Wu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Toai Doan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Aditya Ramamoorthy, Ames, IA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide high density, multi-level memory. Thus, various embodiments of the present invention provide a memory apparatus in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention includes a memory block comprising a plurality of cells, each cell adapted to operate with multi-level signal. Such a memory apparatus also includes a channel block adapted to code data values in accordance with a coding scheme that favorably effects a distribution of the multi-levels of the multi-level signals, and to output the corresponding multi-level signals of the coded data values to the memory block. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.