18903468. WEAR LEVELING OPERATIONS IN MEMORY DEVICES (MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.)
WEAR LEVELING OPERATIONS IN MEMORY DEVICES
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Inventor(s)
Marco Sforzin of Cernusco sul Naviglio IT
Emanuele Confalonieri of Segrate IT
WEAR LEVELING OPERATIONS IN MEMORY DEVICES
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18903468 titled 'WEAR LEVELING OPERATIONS IN MEMORY DEVICES
Original Abstract Submitted
A system includes a memory device; and a processing device coupled to the memory device, the processing device to perform operations including: identifying at least one unusable management unit (UMU) in a plurality of management units that are designated for wear leveling; storing, in a data structure, a physical address and a logical address of the identified at least one UMU; excluding, from a physical address space for wear leveling, the physical address of the identified at least one UMU; and performing a wear leveling operation using the physical address space, wherein the wear leveling operation moves data of a management unit to a neighboring management unit in a circular manner.