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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2011
Kwok W. Yeung, Milpitas, CA (US);
Meng-kun Lee, Cupertino, CA (US);
Kwok W. Yeung, Milpitas, CA (US);
Meng-Kun Lee, Cupertino, CA (US);
Link—A—Media Devices Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A NAND Flash memory controller is used to perform an erase operation on a NAND Flash memory chip including to a cell on the NAND Flash memory chip; the cell is configured to store a first number of bits. It is determined whether the erase operation performed on the NAND Flash memory chip is successful. In the event it is determined that the erase operation performed on the NAND Flash memory chip is unsuccessful, the number of bits stored by the cell is reduced from the first number of bits to a second number of bits; the second number of bits is strictly less than the first number of bits.