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Redundant data storage in multi-die memory systems

  • US 8,572,311 B1
  • Filed: 01/10/2011
  • Issued: 10/29/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for data storage, comprising:

  • in a memory that includes at least N memory units, each memory unit comprising memory blocks, defining superblocks, each superblock comprising a respective set of N of the memory blocks that are allocated respectively in N different ones of the memory units, such that compaction of all the memory blocks in a given superblock is performed without any intervening programming operation in the given superblock;

    storing data in the memory by computing redundancy information for a selected portion of the data, and storing the selected portion and the redundancy information in the N memory blocks of a selected superblock; and

    reading data from a given superblock by issuing read commands to the set of N memory blocks within a given superblock without waiting for data to arrive from a given memory block before issuing a subsequent read command to a next memory block, wherein reading the data from a given superblock further comprises;

    receiving data from N−

    1 memory blocks; and

    using the redundancy information to reconstruct the data unless the redundancy information is in the Nth memory block to arrive.

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