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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2007
Tat Hin Tan, Penang, MY;
Ed Bautista, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Bryan W. Hancock, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jackson Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Allan Parker, Austin, TX (US);
Tat Hin Tan, Penang, MY;
Ed Bautista, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Bryan W. Hancock, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jackson Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Allan Parker, Austin, TX (US);
Spansion LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and/or methods that facilitate error correction of data are presented. An error correction code (ECC) control component facilitates enabling or disabling error correction of data being written to or read from memory, such as flash memory, based on ECC indicator data associated with a piece of data. The ECC control component can analyze data, parity code, and/or indicator data associated with the incoming data and/or data stored in the memory location where the incoming data is to be written to determine whether parity code can be written for the incoming data and/or whether error correction can be enabled with respect to the incoming data. Error correction can be enabled when an indicator bit associated with the data is unprogrammed (e.g., bit set to '1' state) and can be disabled by programming the indicator bit (e.g., bit set to a '0' state).