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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2011
Applicants:
Neil David Hutchison, Campbell, CA (US);
Alan David Bennett, Edinburgh, GB;
Robert Jackson, Milpitas, CA (US);
Inventors:
Neil David Hutchison, Campbell, CA (US);
Alan David Bennett, Edinburgh, GB;
Robert Jackson, Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
SanDisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A non-volatile memory system that has multiple memory banks initially assigns logical addresses to memory banks according to an assignment scheme, maintains this assignment for a period of time, then identifies frequently-written data ('hot-data') assigned to a memory bank that is heavily worn over that period of time and reassigns it to a less worn memory bank.