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Flash memory organization

  • US 8,245,112 B2
  • Filed: 06/04/2009
  • Issued: 08/14/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A flash memory system having a plurality of pages, each page having 2N data locations and K spare locations, and at least one page comprising:

  • 2M

    1 or less user data sectors, each sector having 2N-M+L locations therein; and

    error-correction code (ECC) data related to the user data and stored in at least the 2M user data locations unused by the 2M

    1 user data sectors;

    wherein M, N, L, and K are positive integers, N>

    M, M≧

    1, 1≦

    L<

    2N-M, and wherein at least a portion of one user data sector is stored in the spare locations.

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