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US 2016/0098223 A1Published application
Controller to manage nand memories
AssigneeMicron Technology, Inc.
InventorsFederico Tiziani, Giovanni Campardo, Massimo Iaculo, Claudio Giaccio, Manuela Scognamiglio, Danilo Caraccio, Ornella Vitale, Antonino Pollio
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Abstract
A single virtualized ECC NAND controller executes an ECC algorithm and manages a stack of NAND flash memories. The virtualized ECC NAND controller allows the host processor to drive the stack of flash memory devices as a single NAND chip while the controller redirects the data to the selected NAND memory device in the stack.
Claims1
A method, comprising:
- exchanging signals with a host processor to allow the host processor to communicate with a plurality of memory devices in a memory stack as a single device, regardless of an actual number of memory devices within the memory stack;
- and
- providing power to a single one of the plurality of the memory devices in the memory stack at a time to reduce power consumption.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.