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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2013
Filed:
May. 14, 2008
Seung-hwan Song, Incheon, KR;
Jun Jin Kong, Yongin-si, KR;
Jae Hong Kim, Seoul, KR;
Kyoung Lae Cho, Yongin-si, KR;
Sung Chung Park, Daejeon, KR;
Seung-Hwan Song, Incheon, KR;
Jun Jin Kong, Yongin-si, KR;
Jae Hong Kim, Seoul, KR;
Kyoung Lae Cho, Yongin-si, KR;
Sung Chung Park, Daejeon, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
Memory devices and/or error control codes (ECC) decoding methods may be provided. A memory device may include a memory cell array, and a decoder to perform hard decision decoding of first data read from the memory cell array by a first read scheme, and to generate output data and error information of the output data. The memory device may also include and a control unit to determine an error rate of the output data based on the error information, and to determine whether to transmit an additional read command for soft decision decoding to the memory cell array based on the error rate. An ECC decoding time may be reduced through such a memory device.