- Patent Title: Memory apparatus and method of wear-leveling of a memory apparatus
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Application No.: US15821291Application Date: 2017-11-22
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Publication No.: US10223255B2Publication Date: 2019-03-05
- Inventor: Donggun Kim , Yong Ju Kim , Do Sun Hong
- Applicant: SK hynix Inc.
- Applicant Address: KR Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
- Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
- Current Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
- Agency: William Park & Associates Ltd.
- Priority: KR10-2017-0030848 20170310
- Main IPC: G11C16/04
- IPC: G11C16/04 ; G06F12/02

Abstract:
A memory apparatus and a method of wear-leveling of a memory apparatus may be provided. The memory apparatus may include a memory having a plurality of storage blocks and a plurality of free blocks. The memory apparatus may include a memory controller configured for performing a first global wear-leveling to move data of a first storage block, which is a hot block among the storage blocks, to a first free block among the free blocks. The memory apparatus may include a memory controller configured for remapping a result of a logic operation of a logical page address of each of the pages in the first storage block and a first security refresh key to a physical page address of each of the pages in the first free block.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180260321A1 MEMORY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF WEAR-LEVELING OF A MEMORY APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-09-13
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