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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2011
Roy D. Cideciyan, Rueschlikon, CH;
Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Rueschlikon, CH;
Robert Haas, Rueschlikon, CH;
Xiao-yu HU, Rueschlikon, CH;
Ilias Iliadis, Rueschlikon, CH;
Roman Pletka, Rueschlikon, CH;
Roy D. Cideciyan, Rueschlikon, CH;
Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Rueschlikon, CH;
Robert Haas, Rueschlikon, CH;
Xiao-Yu Hu, Rueschlikon, CH;
Ilias Iliadis, Rueschlikon, CH;
Roman Pletka, Rueschlikon, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for wear-leveling cells, pages, sub-pages or blocks of a memory such as a flash memory includes receiving (S) a chunk of data to be written on the cell, page, sub-page or block of the memory; counting (S), in the received chunk of data, a number of times a given type of binary data '0' or '1' is to be written; and distributing (S) the writing of the received chunk of data among cells, pages, sub-pages or blocks of the memory such as to wear-level the memory with respect to the number of the given type of binary data ‘0’ or ‘1’ counted in the chunk of data to be written.