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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2015
Applicant:
Stmicroelectronics (Rousset) Sas, Rousset, FR;
Inventor:
Hubert Rousseau, Marseilles, FR;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS, Rousset, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 11/1435 (2013.01); G06F 11/1471 (2013.01); G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 16/105 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7202 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7205 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7207 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7211 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for writing and reading data memory cells, comprising: defining in a first memory zone erasable data pages and programmable data blocks; and, in response to write commands of data, writing data in erased blocks of the first memory zone, and writing, in a second memory zone, metadata structures associated with data pages and comprising, for each data page, a wear counter containing a value representative of the number of times that the page has been erased.