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Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 14, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Dae han Kim, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/20 (2006.01); G11C 16/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01); G11C 16/20 (2013.01); G11C 16/22 (2013.01); G11C 16/3459 (2013.01);
Abstract

A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device and a memory controller is provided. The nonvolatile memory device includes a plurality of blocks. The memory controller is configured to detect, upon receiving a power-on signal, a partial block among the plurality of blocks. The partial block includes a first page incompletely programmed due to sudden power-off occurred to the storage device. The memory controller determines whether or not to perform a dummy program operation on the partial block, and programs a second page of the partial bock with dummy data. The first page is different from the second page.


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