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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2014
Macronix International Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Chien-Hsin Liu, Tainan, TW;
Su-Chueh Lo, Hsinchu, TW;
Kuen-Long Chang, Taipei, TW;
Ken-Hui Chen, Hsinchu, TW;
Chun-Hsiung Hung, Hsinchu, TW;
MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A programming method, a reading method and an operating system for a memory are provided. The programming method includes the following steps. A data is provided. A parity generation is performed to obtain an error-correcting code (ECC). The memory is programmed to record the data and the error-correcting code. The data is transformed before performing the parity generation, such that a hamming distance between two codes corresponding to two adjacent threshold voltage states in the data to be performed the parity generation is 1.