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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 12, 2013
Applicant:

Agere Systems Llc, Allentown, PA (US);

Inventors:

Harley F. Burger, 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);

Assignee:

LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/08 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/06 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/08 (2013.01); G06F 11/1072 (2013.01); G11C 11/5628 (2013.01); G11C 11/5642 (2013.01); G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 16/06 (2013.01);
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 as 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.


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