US 11,726,708 B2
Storage device which stores write data and an authentication code into a protected memory block and method of operating the same
Eun Soo Jang, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/941,054.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0018811 (KR), filed on Feb. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0255802 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/64 (2013.01); G06F 21/44 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 3/0659 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 21/44 (2013.01); G06F 21/64 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A storage device comprising:
a memory device; and
a memory controller configured to:
generate check-in information indicating start of a program operation and a target area on which a program operation is to be performed in response to a write request received from a host,
control the memory device to perform the program operation of storing data received from the host in the target area of the memory device,
generate check-out information indicating whether the program operation has succeeded, and
provide a write result response including the check-out information to the host in response to a write return request received from the host,
wherein the memory device is configured to store the check-in information, the data and the check-out information successively in the target area.