Wear leveling of a memory array

In at least one embodiment, a controller of a non-volatile memory array including a plurality of subdivisions stores write data within the non-volatile memory array utilizing a plurality of block stripes of differing numbers of blocks, where all of the blocks within each block stripe are drawn from...

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Main Authors Fisher, Timothy J, Koltsidas, Ioannis, Pletka, Roman A, Tomic, Sasa, Ma, Jason, Fry, Aaron D, Simmons, Lincoln T, Ioannou, Nikolas
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 25.09.2018
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:In at least one embodiment, a controller of a non-volatile memory array including a plurality of subdivisions stores write data within the non-volatile memory array utilizing a plurality of block stripes of differing numbers of blocks, where all of the blocks within each block stripe are drawn from different ones of the plurality of subdivisions. The controller builds new block stripes for storing write data from blocks selected based on estimated remaining endurances of blocks in each of the plurality of subdivisions.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201715821877