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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:
Feb. 20, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 24, 2014
Applicant:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yoshihiro Oikawa, Tokyo, JP;

Hiroshi Hirayama, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/16 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/06 (2013.01); G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 11/1004 (2013.01); G06F 11/1076 (2013.01); G06F 12/0238 (2013.01); G06F 12/16 (2013.01); G11C 16/16 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1016 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7208 (2013.01);
Abstract

A non-volatile memory device includes a non-volatile memory and a memory controller which executes read from the non-volatile memory using a read option. The non-volatile memory includes a plurality of memory area units (e.g. dies described below), and each memory area unit includes a plurality of memory areas (e.g. pages). The memory controller holds management information in which a read option is recorded per memory area unit which is a unit larger than a memory area which is a read unit. The memory controller specifies a memory area unit including a read source memory area, selects a read option matching the specified memory area unit, and executes read from the read source memory area using the selected read option.


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