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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2013
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Zhengang Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeremy Werner, San Jose, CA (US);
Earl T. Cohen, Oakland, CA (US);
Ning Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
AbdelHakim S. Alhussien, San Jose, CA (US);
Erich F. Haratsch, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus having an interface and a circuit is shown. The interface is coupled to a memory that is nonvolatile. The circuit is configured to (i) read a plurality of codewords from a block in the memory based on a program/erase count associated with the block, (ii) count a number of iterations used to decode the codewords and (iii) decrease a code rate of an error correction coding used to program the block in response to the number of iterations exceeding a threshold.