Memory controller and memory system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9189389
APP PUB NO 20140258596A1
SERIAL NO

14023788

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A memory controller having a plurality of channels according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a valid page information management unit that manages, for each of the channel, identification information of a valid page; a write buffer that stores data to be written to the memory; a garbage collection control unit that executes a garbage collection process; and a channel controller capable of executing multi-plane read. The garbage collection control unit controls multi-plane read of the channel controller based on the identification information to level a total number of valid pages read from each of the channel.

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  • TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION

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Kojima, Yoshihisa Kanagawa, JP 152 1115

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