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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2012
Adesto Technologies Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ravi Sunkavalli, Cupertino, CA (US);
Malcolm Wing, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Adesto Technologies Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Structures and methods for encoding data to reduce write cycles in a semiconductor memory device are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of writing data to a semiconductor memory device can include: (i) determining a number of significant bits for data to be written in the semiconductor memory device; (ii) determining a tag associated with the data to be written in the semiconductor memory device, where the tag is determined based on the determined number of significant bits; (iii) encoding the data when the tag has a first state, where the tag is configured to indicate data encoding that comprises using N bits of the encoded data to store M bits of the data, where M and N are both positive integers and N is greater than M; and (iv) writing the encoded data and the tag in the semiconductor memory device.