Methods of operating storage devices
US9928902B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 14, 2016 |
| Grant date | Mar 27, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 14, 2036 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG11C16/3459
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In a method of operating a storage device including at least one nonvolatile memory device and a memory controller configured to control the at least one nonvolatile memory device, a boundary page of a first memory block among a plurality of memory blocks included in the at least one nonvolatile memory device is searched for, at least one clean page, in which data is not written, of the first memory block is searched for, a dummy program operation is performed on a portion of the boundary page and the at least one clean page, and an erase operation is performed on the first memory block.
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