Wear Leveling for Non-Volatile Memories: Maintenance of Experience Count and Passive Techniques
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Jul 8, 2010
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Jan 5, 2009
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Wear leveling techniques for re-programmable non-volatile memory systems, such as a flash EEPROM system, are described. One set of techniques uses “passive” arrangements, where, when a blocks are selected for writing, blocks with relatively low experience count are selected. This can be done by ordering the list of available free blocks based on experience count, with the “coldest” blocks placed at the front of the list, or by searching the free blocks to find a block that is “cold enough”. In another, complementary set of techniques, usable for more standard wear leveling operations as well as for “passive” techniques and other applications where the experience count is needed, the experience count of a block or meta-block is maintained as a block's attribute along its address in the data management structures, such as address tables.
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