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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2015
Sandisk Technologies Llc, Plano, TX (US);
Abhijeet Bhalerao, San Jose, CA (US);
Mrinal Kochar, San Jose, CA (US);
Dennis S. Ea, Hayward, CA (US);
Mikhail Palityka, Ontario, CA;
Aaron Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yew Yin Ng, Milpitas, CA (US);
Ivan Baran, San Jose, CA (US);
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
Data that is initially stored in Single Level Cell (SLC) blocks is subsequently copied (folded) to a Multi Level Cell (MLC) block where the data is stored in MLC format, the data copied in a minimum unit of a fold-set, the MLC block including a plurality of separately-selectable sets of NAND strings, data of an individual fold-set copied exclusively to two or more word lines of an individual separately-selectable set of NAND strings in the MLC block.