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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2009
Harley F. Burger, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);
Erich F. Haratsch, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Milos Ivkovic, Allentown, PA (US);
Victor Krachkovsky, Allentown, PA (US);
Andrei Vityaev, San Jose, CA (US);
Clifton Williamson, Saratoga, CA (US);
Johnson Yen, Fremont, CA (US);
Harley F. Burger, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);
Erich F. Haratsch, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Milos Ivkovic, Allentown, PA (US);
Victor Krachkovsky, Allentown, PA (US);
Andrei Vityaev, San Jose, CA (US);
Clifton Williamson, Saratoga, CA (US);
Johnson Yen, Fremont, CA (US);
Agere Systems LLC, Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are provided for storing data in a multi-level cell flash memory device with cross-page sectors, multi-page coding and per-page coding. A single sector can be stored across a plurality of pages in the flash memory device. Per-page control is provided of the number of sectors in each page, as well the code and/or code rate used for encoding and decoding a given page, and the decoder or decoding algorithm used for decoding a given page. Multi-page and wordline level access schemes are also provided.