Semiconductor device with user defined operations and associated methods and systems

A method, comprising:

• receiving, at a memory device, a command that disables an error-correcting code (ECC) function of the memory device;
• receiving, while the ECC function of the memory device is disabled, an access command corresponding to a memory array of the memory device, wherein user data is associated with a first portion of the memory array and a second portion of the memory array stores ECC information associated with the user data;
• and
• accessing, in response to the access command, at least the second portion of the memory array in accordance with a flag indicating that the memory device is capable of accessing the second portion of the memory array while the ECC function of the memory device is disabled.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code, the code comprising instructions executable by one or more processors to:

• receive, at a memory device, a command that disables an error-correcting code (ECC) function of the memory device;
• receive, while the ECC function of the memory device is disabled, an access command corresponding to a memory array of the memory device, wherein user data is associated with a first portion of the memory array and a second portion of the memory array stores ECC information associated with the user data;
• and
• access, in response to the access command, at least the second portion of the memory array in accordance with a flag indicating that the memory device is capable of accessing the second portion of the memory array while the ECC function of the memory device is disabled.