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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2014
Eun-chu OH, Hwaseong-Si, KR;
Eun-cheol Kim, Seongnam-Si, KR;
Jun-jin Kong, Yongin-Si, KR;
Kwang-hoon Kim, Hwaseong-Si, KR;
Hong-rak Son, Anyang-Si, KR;
Eun-Chu Oh, Hwaseong-Si, KR;
Eun-Cheol Kim, Seongnam-Si, KR;
Jun-Jin Kong, Yongin-Si, KR;
Kwang-Hoon Kim, Hwaseong-Si, KR;
Hong-Rak Son, Anyang-Si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
A method of operating a memory controller in a memory system including a nonvolatile memory device includes; erasing memory cells of a target memory block of the non-volatile memory device on a block basis, and then searching for a bad memory cell by a performing an erase verifying operation, comparing a threshold voltage of the bad memory cell to a reference voltage to generate comparison results, and designating as a bad area one of the entire target memory block, and a sub-block of the target memory block in response to the comparison results.
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