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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
May. 22, 2012
Philip L. Northcott, Coquitlam, CA;
Philip L. Northcott, Coquitlam, CA;
PMC-Sierra, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods provide relatively low uncorrectable bit error rates, low write amplification, long life, fast and efficient retrieval, and efficient storage density such that a solid-state drive (SSD) can be implemented using relatively inexpensive MLC Flash for an enterprise storage application. Predefined gears correspond to different predefined ECC schemes. Based on an observed bit error rate, a gear from a set of predefined gears is selected for use for a particular region of memory. Each gear of the set of predefined gears includes a lower-latency ECC decode option and one or more higher-latency ECC decode options.