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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2014
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Inventor:
Sangyeun Cho, Seongnam-si, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G11C 29/50 (2006.01); G11C 11/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/50016 (2013.01); G11C 29/76 (2013.01); G11C 11/40 (2013.01);
Abstract
A memory system includes a memory controller configured to replace a memory block including a failed memory cell with a unit cache block of a cache memory in response to detection of the failed memory cell in the memory block. The unit cache block is smaller than a minimum size of a memory cell array capable of being blocked by an operating system, and the unit cache block has substantially the same storage capacity as the memory block.