MEMORY CONTROL METHOD AND MEMORY CONTROL APPARATUS

• Main Author: ZHOU, Shicong
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 31.05.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; PHYSICS; STATIC STORES

The present invention provides memory control methods and memory control apparatus. An exemplary method includes providing a memory having at least a first memory cell, an initial status of the first memory cell being at an erase state; receiving and reading out a to-be stored data to obtain a targeted address of the to-be-stored data; reading out data in each of the plurality of memory cells; determining if a data status of a memory cell corresponding to the targeted address is at a valid state according to the targeted address; performing a programming operation to the first memory cell to write the to-be-stored data into the first memory cell when the data status of the memory cell corresponding to the targeted address is at the valid state; and performing an erase operation to the memory cell corresponding to the targeted address to prepare a next data write operation.