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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 04, 2016
Applicant:

Toshiba Memory Corporation, Minato-ku, JP;

Inventors:

Yuma Yoshinaga, Yokohama, JP;

Ryo Yamaki, Yokohama, JP;

Daiki Watanabe, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G11C 29/52 (2006.01); H03M 13/45 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G11C 29/36 (2006.01); G11C 29/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); G11C 11/5642 (2013.01); G11C 29/36 (2013.01); G11C 29/52 (2013.01); H03M 13/453 (2013.01); G11C 2029/0409 (2013.01); G11C 2029/3602 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to the embodiments, a memory system includes a non-volatile memory, a control unit that reads a received word from the non-volatile memory, and a decoder that performs soft-decision decode to the received word. The decoder includes a test pattern generating unit that generates test patterns, a hard decision decoder that performs hard-decision decode by using the test pattern and the received word and outputs a decoded word, and a distance calculating unit that calculates Euclidean distance between the decoded word and the received word based on the decoded words of which the number is less than that of the test patterns of all the combinations in a case where the number of flips is of one to a predetermined value and selects a decoded word which is the decoding result from among the decoded words output from the hard decision decoder based on the Euclidean distance.


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