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Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 09, 2016
Applicant:

Toshiba Memory Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Sho Kodama, Kawasaki Kanagawa, JP;

Keiri Nakanishi, Kawasaki Kanagawa, JP;

Kohei Oikawa, Tokyo, JP;

Kojiro Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G11C 29/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); G11C 29/52 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a memory controller includes a compression unit and a padding processing unit. The compression unit compresses first data to be written into a first page and second data to be written into a second page. The padding processing unit performs a padding processing such that the compressed first data is written into first memory cells, first padding data is written into second memory cells, the compressed second data is written into third memory cells, and second padding data is written into fourth memory cells.


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