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The Patent Office Journal 17/12/2010
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(12) PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATION (21) Application No.1081/DEL/2010 A
(19) INDIA
(22) Date of filing of Application :07/05/2010 (43) Publication Date : 17/12/2010
(54) Title of the invention : ERROR CORRECTING CODES FOR INCREASED STORAGE CAPACITY IN MULTILEVEL
MEMORY DEVICES
(51) International classification :G11C11/56;
(31) Priority Document No :12/482,400
(32) Priority Date :10/06/2009
(33) Name of priority country :U.S.A.
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(71)Name of Applicant :
1)NUMONYX B.V.
Address of Applicant :ZONE D'ACTIVITES LA PIECE 2, A-
ONE BUSINESS CENTER, ROUTE DE I'ETRAZ, 1180
ROLLE, SWITZERLAND
(72)Name of Inventor :
1)AMATO, PAOLO
2)CAMPARDO, GIOVANNI
(57) Abstract :
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, and apparatuses related to multilevel encoding with error
correction. In some embodiments, data may be programmed and/or read from a matrix of nonvolatile memory cells with concatenated
encoding/decoding schemes. In some embodiments, a calculation module may determine an actual bit per cell value of a given
combination of parameters of a nonvolatile memory device. Still other embodiments may be described and claimed.
No. of Pages : 28 No. of Claims : 9