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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2013
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Seonghyeog Choi, Hwaseong-Si, KR;
Junjin Kong, Yongin-Si, KR;
Hong Rak Son, Anyang-Si, KR;
Pilsang Yoon, Hwaseong-Si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
A storage device comprises a nonvolatile memory device comprising a plurality of memory cells, and an error correction circuit configured to receive primary data and secondary data from the nonvolatile memory device and to perform a hard decision decoding operation on the primary data and further configured to perform a soft decision decoding operation on the primary data based on the secondary data. The primary data is read from the plurality of memory cells in a hard decision read operation and the secondary data is read from memory cells programmed to a specific state from among the primary data.