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Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 07, 2012
Applicants:

Hee Seok Eun, Hwaseong-Si, KR;

Jae Hong Kim, Seoul, KR;

Hyung Joon Park, Yongin-Si, KR;

Young Kwang Yoo, Suwon-Si, KR;

Inventors:

Hee Seok Eun, Hwaseong-Si, KR;

Jae Hong Kim, Seoul, KR;

Hyung Joon Park, Yongin-Si, KR;

Young Kwang Yoo, Suwon-Si, KR;

Assignee:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G11C 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1072 (2013.01);
Abstract

A nonvolatile memory device comprises a memory controller having a memory cell status estimator that generates status estimation information indicating the status of a memory cell based on status register data, a coupling group index selector configured to generate a select signal for selecting a page and coupling group index from the status estimation information, and a memory cell status value generator configured to map the status estimation information to the data reliability decision bits and the coupling group index and generate a status value of the memory cell for error correction code decoding.


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