IP Library Granted Patent US 12675398
Granted Patent B2
US 12675398 · App. 18/829,536 · Granted Jul 7, 2026

Data compression device, data decompression device, and memory system

Inventors: Masato Sumiyoshi (Yokohama Kanagawa, JP); Sho Kodama (Kamakura Kanagawa, JP); Keiri Nakanishi (Kawasaki Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
G06F12/0246
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Patent No.
US 12675398
App. No.
18/829,536
Granted
Jul 7, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a data compression device includes all-literal determination circuitry and end-of-block symbol addition circuitry. In a case where dictionary-based compression on a first data block is performed, the all-literal determination circuitry determines whether all one or more symbols in a second data block are literal symbols. The symbols are obtained by performing the dictionary-based compression on the first data block. When all the symbols are literal symbols, end-of-block symbol addition circuitry does not add an end-of-block symbol to an end of the second data block. When at least one symbol among the symbols is not a literal symbol, the end-of-block symbol addition circuitry adds the end-of-block symbol to the end of the second data block.

Claims (35)

1 . A data decompression device comprising:

all-literal determination circuitry configured to determine whether or not all one or more symbols that are obtained by performing entropy decoding on compressed data are literal symbols;

block boundary determination circuitry configured to:

calculate a first data size of data to be obtained by performing dictionary-based decompression on the one or more symbols; and

in a case where all the one or more symbols are literal symbols, output a first information indicating that a symbol of the one or more symbols corresponds to an end of a data block, based on the first data size and information indicative of a size of an uncompressed data block; and

end-of-block symbol detection circuitry configured to, in a case where at least one symbol among the one or more symbols is not a literal symbol, output a second information indicating that a symbol of the one or more symbols corresponds to the end of the data block, based on the symbol of the one or more symbols.

2 . The data decompression device according to claim 1 , wherein

the compressed data includes a third information indicating whether all the one or more symbols are literal symbols or not, and

the all-literal determination circuitry is configured to determine whether all the one or more symbols are literal symbols or not, based on the third information.

3 . The data decompression device according to claim 1 , wherein

the block boundary determination circuitry is configured to calculate the first data size based on a number of the one or more symbols.

4 . The data decompression device according to claim 3 , wherein

the block boundary determination circuitry is configured to output the first information in a case where the first data size is equal to the size of the uncompressed data block.

5 . The data decompression device according to claim 1 , wherein

the end-of-block symbol detection circuitry is configured to:

determine whether a symbol of the one or more symbols is an end-of-block symbol or not; and

in a case where the symbol of the one or more symbols is the end-of-block symbol, output the second information.

6 . The data decompression device according to claim 5 , wherein

the end-of-block symbol detection circuitry is configured to, in a case where a symbol of one or more symbols is the end-of-block symbol, output the second information to the block boundary determination circuitry.

7 . The data decompression device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

decoding circuitry configured to:

generate the one or more symbols by performing the entropy decoding on the compressed data by using a first coding table obtained from the compressed data; and

in a case where the first information is output or in a case where the second information is output, generate one or more subsequent symbols to the one or more symbols by performing the entropy decoding on the compressed data by using a second coding table that is different from the first coding table and is obtained from the compressed data.

8 . The data decompression device according to claim 1 , further comprising

decoding circuitry configured to generate the one or more symbols by performing the entropy decoding on one or more variable-length codes included in the compressed data,

wherein the block boundary determination circuitry is configured to:

calculate a second data size of the one or more variable-length codes; and

in a case where all the one or more symbols are literal symbols, output the first information, based on the second data size and a third information that indicates a size of a second data block obtained by performing dictionary-based compression and entropy coding on a first data block.

9 . The data decompression device according to claim 8 , wherein

the block boundary determination circuitry is configured to output the first information in a case where the second data size is equal to the size of the second data block.

10 . The data decompression device according to claim 8 , wherein

the compressed data includes the third information.

11 . A memory system comprising:

a nonvolatile memory; and

controller circuitry including the data decompression device according to claim 1 and configured to read the compressed data from the nonvolatile memory.