US 12,443,485 B2
Data handling during a reflow operation
Poorna Kale, Folsom, CA (US); and Lei Pan, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US)
Appl. No. 18/551,596
Filed by Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US)
PCT Filed Aug. 26, 2022, PCT No. PCT/CN2022/115115
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 21, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2024/040569, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 29, 2024.
Prior Publication US 2025/0036524 A1, Jan. 30, 2025
Int. Cl. G06F 11/10 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 11/1068 (2013.01) [G06F 11/1004 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, at a memory system, first signaling indicating that a reflow operation is to be performed on the memory system;
determining, based at least in part on receiving the first signaling, whether an amount of data stored in a first plurality of memory cells within one or more memory devices of the memory system satisfies a threshold;
reformatting, based at least in part on the amount of data satisfying the threshold, a portion of the data stored to the first plurality of memory cells by writing the data to a second plurality of memory cells, wherein the first plurality of memory cells store two or more bits of information per cell and the second plurality of memory cells store one bit of information per cell; and
communicating an indication of whether the memory system is ready for the reflow operation based at least in part on the amount of data satisfying the threshold.