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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2013
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Evangelos S Eleftheriou, Zurich, CH;
Ilias Iliadis, Zurich, CH;
Robert Haas, Zurich, CH;
Xiaoyu Hu, Zurich, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A non-volatile solid state memory device and method for balancing write/erase cycles among blocks to level block usage. The non-volatile solid state memory device includes a memory unit having data stored therein and a controller with logic for programming the memory unit according to a monitored occurrence of an error during a read operation. The method includes monitoring an occurrence of an error during a read operation in a memory unit of the device and programming the memory unit according to the monitored occurrence of the error.