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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2014
Applicant:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 2206/1014 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including a plurality of blocks, and a controller controlling the nonvolatile memory. The controller cyclically executes patrol read, the patrol read including reading data and testing the read data, the read data being data of pages connected to some of word lines in each of the blocks of the nonvolatile memory.