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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2012
Applicants:
Bing Dai, Ossining, NY (US);
Chung H. Lam, Peekskill, NY (US);
Jing LI, Ossining, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A memory controller, system including the memory controller and method of controlling the memory. The memory controller receives requests for memory and content sensitively allocates memory space in a mixed cell memory. The memory controller allocates sufficient space including performance memory storing a single bit per cell and dense memory storing more than one bit per cell. Some or all of the memory may be selectable by the memory controller as either Single Level per Cell (SLC) or Multiple Level per Cell (MLC).