Memory system and method of operating the same

Abstract

Provided herein may be a memory system and a method of operating the memory system. The memory system may include: a semiconductor memory device to which an address mapping table including a plurality of map segments is stored; and a controller configured to load and store, during a read operation, one or more map segments selected from among the plurality of map segments. The controller may include: a compression engine configured to compress the one or more map segments and generate one or more compressed map segments and metadata corresponding thereto; a map data loading buffer configured to store the one or more compressed map segments and the metadata; and a processor configured to store the one or more compressed map segments to a random access memory (RAM) using the metadata.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.