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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2016
Toshiba Memory Corporation, Minato-ku, JP;
TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION, Minato-ku, JP;
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a controller, and a nonvolatile memory in which an erase operation is controlled by the controller, the nonvolatile memory including blocks, the erase operation executing every block, the nonvolatile memory transferring a first reply showing a completion of the erase operation and a fail bit count showing a number of memory cells in which a data erase is uncompleted after the completion of the erase operation to the controller. The controller selects a target block as a target of the erase operation based on the fail bit count.
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