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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2008
Vishal Sarin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Dzung H. Nguyen, Fremont, CA (US);
William H. Radke, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Vishal Sarin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Dzung H. Nguyen, Fremont, CA (US);
William H. Radke, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
Electronic systems and methods of operating memory devices are provided. In one such embodiment, a memory device receives an external address that addresses a non-defective memory block of a sequence of memory blocks of the memory device in place of a defective memory block of the sequence of memory blocks such that the non-defective memory block replaces the defective memory block. The non-defective memory block is proximate non-defective memory block following the defective memory block in the sequence of memory blocks that is available to replace the defective memory block.