Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Block management scheme to handle cluster failures in non-volatile memory
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Application No.: US14638860Application Date: 2015-03-04
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Publication No.: US10055267B2Publication Date: 2018-08-21
- Inventor: Dinesh Kumar Agarwal , Ramkumar Ramamurthy , Vijay Sivasankaran
- Applicant: SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Applicant Address: US TX Plano
- Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Current Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Plano
- Agency: Stoel Rives LLP
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G06F11/00 ; G11C29/08 ; G11C29/44 ; G11C29/00 ; G11C8/12 ; G11C16/08 ; G11C29/04

Abstract:
In a non-volatile memory system, such as flash memory, when selecting a block for write operation, the system selects blocks from a free block list (FBL). The memory circuits of non-volatile systems often experience cluster failures, where multiple blocks of a physical region are bad. If the free block list is loaded with blocks from a region having a cluster failure, this can result in multiple back to back write errors. To help avoid this situation, the blocks of a memory array are divided into physical zones and, when selecting blocks to replenish the free block list, blocks are chosen cyclically from the zones.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160259570A1 Block Management Scheme to Handle Cluster Failures in Non-Volatile Memory Public/Granted day:2016-09-08
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