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Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 13, 2014
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Moshe Twitto, Givaat Shemuel, IL;

Avner Dor, far Saba, IL;

Jun Jin Kong, Yongin-si, KR;

Chang Kyu Seol, Osan-si, KR;

Hong Rak Son, Anyang-si, KR;

Assignee:

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1072 (2013.01); G06F 11/108 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of processing data using a memory controller includes determining at least one cell state to which each of a plurality of multi-level cells can be changed to based on a current cell state of each multi-level cell, where each multi-level cell includes a plurality of data pages; determining one of the data pages as having a stuck bit when a value of the data page has a single mapping value based on mapping values mapped to the at least one cell state and generating stuck bit data regarding the stuck bit; and encoding write data to be stored in the multi-level cells based on the stuck bit data.


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