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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2013
Applicant:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Inventor:
Ryan G. Fisher, Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G06F 12/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure includes methods and devices for logical memory blocks. One method for operating a memory device includes receiving a command to operate X pages of the memory device, X being greater than Y, and executing the command by executing multiple subcommands, each subcommand operating on a logical memory block portion of the X pages, each logical memory block including at most Y pages. T is a timeout limit, N is a number of pages comprising a block of memory, and Y is number of pages that can be operated within time T.