IP Library Granted Patent US 11,609,846
Granted Patent B2
US 11,609,846 · App. 16/948,302 · Granted Mar 21, 2023

Managing workload of programming sets of pages to memory device

Inventors: Kishore Kumar Muchherla (Fremont, CA); Karl D. Schuh (Santa Cruz, CA); Jiangang Wu (Milpitas, CA); Mustafa N. Kaynak (San Diego, CA); Devin M. Batutis (San Jose, CA); Xiangang Luo (Fremont, CA)
Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
G06F12/0246G06F12/0848G06F12/0882G11C16/10G11C16/26G11C16/3404G06F2212/7207
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Patent No.
US 11,609,846
App. No.
16/948,302
Granted
Mar 21, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system includes a memory device having multiple dice and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is to perform operations, including receiving a memory operation to program a set of pages of data across at least a subset of the plurality of dice. The operations further include partitioning the set of pages into a set of partitions, programming the set of partitions to the plurality of dice, and storing, in a metadata table, at least one bit to indicate that the set of pages is partitioned.

Claims (67)

1. A system comprising:

a memory device comprising a plurality of dice; and

a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device, the processing device to perform operations, comprising:

receiving a memory operation to program a set of pages of data across at least a subset of the plurality of dice;

partitioning the set of pages into a set of partitions;

determining a data state metric value representative of the set of pages;

setting a size of each partition of the set of partitions based on the data state metric value;

programming the set of partitions to the plurality of dice; and

storing, in a metadata table, at least one bit to indicate that the set of pages is partitioned.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

associating a first partition of the set of partitions with a first block family; and

assigning the first block family to a first threshold voltage offset bin.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the operations further comprise:

associating a subsequent partition of the set of partitions with a second block family; and

assigning the second block family to a second threshold voltage offset bin.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise, in response to determining that at least a specified period of time elapses before a partition of the set of partitions has been fully programmed:

writing a randomized pattern data to fully program the partition; and

associating the partition with a block family.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein each partition of the set of partitions is of a fixed length comprising a number of the set of pages, and wherein the operations further comprise storing, in the metadata table, a value indicative of the fixed length.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the set of pages is a superblock and wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a read operation directed at a page of the superblock;

determining, based on a logical block address specified by the read operation and the value indicative of the fixed length, a partition of the set of partitions to which the read operation corresponds; and

searching, using a first value associated with the superblock and a second value associated with the partition, the metadata table to identify a block family to which the partition is assigned.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein each partition is a numbered portion of the set of pages, the set of partitions comprises a maximum number of variable-length partitions, and the operations further comprise storing, in the metadata table in association with the set of pages, an address of a last valid page that was written for each numbered portion of the set of pages.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the set of pages is a superblock and wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a read operation directed at a page of the superblock;

searching through a plurality of last valid pages of the metadata table to determine a partition of the set of partitions corresponding to a logical block address of the read operation; and

searching, using a first value associated with the superblock and a second value associated with the partition, the metadata table to identify a block family to which the partition is assigned.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the set of partitions comprises a variable number of fixed-length and variable-length partitions, and wherein the operations further comprise storing a value identifying each variable-length partition in an array with a multiple-linked list structure of tracking the variable-length partitions.

10. A method comprising:

receiving, by a memory sub-system of a memory device, a memory operation to program a set of pages of data across at least a subset of a plurality of dice of the memory device;

partitioning, by a processing device of the memory sub-system, the set of pages into a set of fixed-length partitions, wherein each fixed-length partition is a numbered sub-group of the set of pages;

programming, by the processing device, the set of fixed-length partitions to the plurality of dice; and

storing, by the processing device in a metadata table, a value to indicate a size of each fixed-length partition.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

associating a first partition of the set of fixed-length partitions with a first block family; and

assigning the first block family to a first threshold voltage offset bin.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

associating a subsequent partition of the set of fixed-length partitions with a second block family; and

assigning the second block family to a second threshold voltage offset bin.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the set of pages is a superblock, the method further comprising

receiving a read operation directed at a page of the superblock;

determining, based on a logical block address of the read operation and on the value that indicates the size of each fixed-length partition, a partition of the set of fixed-length partitions to which the read operation corresponds; and

searching, using a first value associated with the superblock and a second value associated with the partition, the metadata table to identify a block family to which the partition is assigned.

14. The method of claim 13 , further comprising:

searching a block family table, using an identifier for the block family, to identify a threshold voltage offset bin to which the block family is assigned;

searching within a threshold voltage offset table using a bin number for the threshold voltage offset bin to determine one or more threshold voltage offset value for use in performing the read operation; and

reading data from the page via application of the one or more threshold voltage offset value to a base read level.

15. A method comprising:

receiving, by a memory sub-system of a memory device, a memory operation to program a set of pages of data across at least a subset of a plurality of dice of the memory device;

partitioning, by a processing device of the memory sub-system, the set of pages into a set of variable-length partitions, wherein each variable-length partition is a numbered sub-group of the set of pages;

programming, by the processing device, the set of variable-length partitions to the plurality of dice; and

storing, by the processing device in a metadata table, an address of a last valid page that was written for each numbered sub-group of the set of pages.

16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:

associating a first partition of the set of variable-length partitions with a first block family; and

assigning the first block family to a first threshold voltage offset bin.

17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:

associating a subsequent partition of the set of variable-length partitions with a second block family; and

assigning the second block family to a second threshold voltage offset bin.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein the set of pages is a superblock, the method further comprising:

receiving a read operation directed at a page of the superblock;

searching through a plurality of last valid pages of the metadata table to determine a partition of the set of variable-length partitions corresponding to a logical block address of the read operation; and

searching, using a first value associated with the superblock and a second value associated with the partition, the metadata table to identify a block family to which the partition is assigned.

19. The method of claim 18 , further comprising:

searching a block family table, using an identifier for the block family, to identify a threshold voltage offset bin to which the block family is assigned;

searching within a threshold voltage offset table using a bin number for the threshold voltage offset bin to determine one or more threshold voltage offset value for use in performing the read operation; and

reading data from the page via application of the one or more threshold voltage offset value to a base read level.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 11, 2020
From: MUCHHERLA, KISHORE KUMAR; SCHUH, KARL D.; WU, JIANGANG; KAYNAK, MUSTAFA N.; BATUTIS, DEVIN M.; LUO, XIANGANG
To: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
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