Memory system and operating method of memory system

• US 10,013,209 B2
• Filed: 05/11/2016
• Issued: 07/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
• Original Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
• Inventors: Byun, Eu-Joon
• Primary Examiner(s): Bataille, Pierre Miche
• Application Number:
  US15/152,165
• Publication Number:
  US 20170147260A1
• Time in Patent Office: 783 Days
• Field of Search: 711154, 711112
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0888 using selective caching, e.g. bypass
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/1009 using page tables, e.g. page table structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/12 Replacement control
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/126 with special data handling, e.g. priority of data or instructions, handling errors or pinning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/1021 Hit rate improvement
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/60 Details of cache memory
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0611 in relation to response time
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0659 Command handling arrangements, e.g. command buffers, queues, command scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0679 Non-volatile semiconductor memory device, e.g. flash memory, one time programmable memory [OTP]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0685 Hybrid storage combining heterogeneous device types, e.g. hierarchical storage, hybrid arrays

Abstract

A memory system may include: a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks; and a controller including a memory, and suitable for storing segments of data corresponding to a command received from a host in the memory, and storing a first segment for a first time point and a second segment for a second time point selected from among the segments in the memory blocks on a program basis at the first time point.

Claims

1. A memory system comprising:

a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks; and

a controller including a memory, the controller being suitable for storing segments of data corresponding to a command received from a host in the memory, and storing a first segment for a first time point and a second segment for a second time point after the first time point, selected from among the segments in at least one memory block of the memory blocks, on a program unit basis at the first time point, when the size of the first segment is smaller than the size of the program unit,

wherein the second segment is pre-written at the first time point before the second time point in the at least one memory block.

2. The memory system of claim 1, wherein the size of the second segment corresponds to a size obtained by excluding the size of the first segment from the size of the program unit.

3. The memory system of claim 1, wherein the controller stores the first segment for the first time point and the second segment for the second time point in a first memory block of the memory blocks on the program unit basis at the first time point, and

the controller checks first map segments for the data in a second memory block of the memory blocks, and checks second map segments for the first map segments among the segments.

4. The memory system of claim 3, wherein the controller selects the second map segments as the first and second segments, and stores the first and second segments in the first memory block of the memory blocks on the program unit basis at the first time point.

5. The memory system of claim 3, wherein the controller determines empty areas at the positions of the second map segments in the segments, and loads the first map segments to the empty areas from the second memory block.

6. The memory system of claim 5, wherein the controller loads a third map segment among the first map segments to the empty areas at the first time point, and loads a fourth map segment among the first map segments to the empty areas at the second time point.

7. The memory system of claim 1, wherein each of the first and second segments has a size obtained by dividing the program unit.

8. The memory system of claim 1, wherein the first segment has a higher priority than the second segment according to cache replacement policy considering the priority of the segments, and is selected prior to the second segment.

9. The memory system of claim 1, wherein the segments comprise segments of user data corresponding to the command and segments of map data for the user data.

10. An operating method of a memory system including a memory device which includes a plurality of memory blocks and a controller having a memory, comprising:

receiving a command from a host;

storing segments of data corresponding to the command in the memory of the controller; and

storing a first segment for a first time point and a second segment for a second time point after the first time point, selected from among the segments in at least one memory block of the memory blocks, on a program unit basis at the first time point, when the size of the first segment is smaller than the size of the program unit,

wherein the second segment is pre-written at the first time point before the second time point in the at least one memory block.

11. The operating method of claim 10, wherein the size of the second segment corresponds to a size obtained by excluding the size of the first segment from the size of the program unit.

12. The operating method of claim 10, wherein storing of the first segment for the first time point and the second segment for the second time point comprises storing the first segment for the first time point and the second segment for the second time point in a first memory block of the memory blocks on the program unit at the first time point, and

further comprising:

checking first map segments for the data in a second memory block of the memory blocks; and

checking second map segments for the first map segments among the segments.

13. The operating method of claim 12, further comprising selecting the second map segments as the first and second segments, and storing the first and second segments in the first memory block of the memory blocks on the program unit basis at the first time point.

14. The operating method of claim 12, further comprising:

determining empty areas at the positions of the second map segments in the segments; and

loading the first map segments to the empty areas from the second memory block.

15. The operating method of claim 14, wherein the loading of the first map segments comprises:

loading a third map segment among the first map segments to the empty areas at the first time point; and

loading a fourth map segment among the first map segments to the empty areas at the second time point.

16. The operating method of claim 10, wherein each of the first and second segments has a size which is obtained by dividing the program unit.

17. The operating method of claim 10, wherein the first segment has a higher priority than the second segment according to cache replacement policy considering the priority of the segments, and is selected prior to the second segment.

18. The memory operating method of claim 10, wherein the segments comprise segments of user data corresponding to the command and segments of map data for the user data.