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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2013
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Young Woo Jung, Osan-Si, KR;
Heetak Shin, Hwaseong-Si, KR;
Jinwoo Jung, Seoul, KR;
Wan-Soo Choi, Suwon-Si, KR;
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Abstract
A storage device is provided which includes a plurality of memory chips each nonvolatile memory cells divided into a first memory region and a second memory region; and a memory controller configured to buffer data provided from the exterior and to control the plurality of memory chips to perform a buffer-program operation and a main-program operation. The buffered data is stored at the first memory region at the buffer-program operation and data stored at the first memory region is written at the second memory region at the main-program operation. During a main-program operation of a first memory chip among the plurality of memory chips, the memory controller buffers data to be written at a second memory chip.