Abstract: According to an embodiment of the invention there may be provided a method for measuring, by a power measurement circuit of a memory controller, a power consumption of a flash memory unit coupled to the memory controller to provide power measurements; wherein the memory controller further may include a read circuit, a write circuit, an erase circuit and a processor.

Abstract: A method comprising: generating or receiving read threshold information indicative of multiple read thresholds values that were applied when reading multiple flash memory cells that belong to multiple rows of a flash memory module; and generating a compressed representation of reference read thresholds to be applied during future read operations of the flash memory cells in response to the read threshold information.

Abstract: A method for parallel multi-dimensional encoding, the method may include receiving or generating a first version of a group of bits and a second version of the group of bits, wherein the first and second versions differ from each other by an arrangement of bits of the data unit; selecting a first set of bits of the first version and a second set of bits of the second version; encoding, in parallel, the first set of bits and the second set of bits; wherein the encoding of the second set of bits is responsive to the second set of bits and a first redundancy result of the encoding of the first set of bits; and wherein the encoding of the first set of bits is responsive to the first set of bits and to a second redundancy result of the encoding of the second set of bits.

Abstract: A method of managing a non-volatile memory device, the method comprising: receiving data sectors; writing each data sector into a data block that is allocated to a memory space subset that is associated with the data sector; wherein the data block belongs to a buffer of the non-volatile memory device; maintaining a management data structure that comprises location metadata about a location of each data sector in the buffer; and merging, if a criterion is fulfilled and before the buffer becomes full, data sectors stored at different data blocks and belong to a same set of logical memory blocks into a sequential portion of the non-volatile memory device, wherein the sequential portion differs from the buffer.

Abstract: A method for non-uniform multiple dimensional decoding, the method may include receiving or generating a multiple dimensional encoded data unit; and decoding by a processor the multiple dimensional encoded data unit to provide a decoded data unit; wherein the multiple dimensional encoded data unit comprises multiple component codes associated with multiple dimensions; wherein the multiple dimensions comprise a plurality of non-uniform dimensions; wherein at least two component codes of each non-uniform dimension differ from each other by encoding rate; wherein the decoding is responsive to encoding rates of component codes of the plurality of non-uniform dimensions.

Abstract: A method of managing a non-volatile memory module, the method may include: receiving data sectors during a set of at least one write transactions; selecting, out of the currently buffered portions, to-be-merged memory space portions and to-be-cleaned memory space portions; merging, for each to-be-merged memory space portion and before the buffer becomes full, data sectors that belong to the to-be-merged memory space portion into a sequential portion of the non-volatile memory module, wherein the sequential portion differs from the buffer; and copying, for each to-be-cleaned memory space and before the buffer becomes full, data sectors that belong to the to-be-cleaned memory space portion into a buffer block of the buffer.

Abstract: There is provided a method for setting read thresholds to be used for reading multiple bits per cell flash memory cells, the method may include reading, by a read circuit, the flash memory cells using a set of current read thresholds to provide current read results; finding, by an error evaluation circuit, current read errors direction statistics associated with the current read results; determining multiple read threshold changes based upon the current read error direction statistics, without determining a contribution of each current read threshold to the current read error direction statistics; and altering multiple current read thresholds, by the multiple read threshold updates, to provide a set of next read thresholds.

Abstract: A flash memory module and a method for programming a page of flash memory cells, the method includes: receiving a cycle count indication indicative of a number of program cycles of the page of memory cells; setting a value of a programming parameter of a programming operation based on the cycle count indication; and programming at least one flash memory cell of the page of flash memory cells by performing the programming operation.

Abstract: A method of decoding an array of multi-dimensional code components, the method may include searching in a group of multi-dimensional code components a suspected multi-dimensional code component, wherein the suspected multi-dimensional code component belongs to the array multi-dimensional code components and is associated with a false correction probability that exceeds a false correction threshold; wherein the searching comprises dummy decoding, by a decoder, the group of multi-dimensional code components; and performing at least one non-dummy decoding of multi-dimensional code components of the array without performing non-dummy decoding of the suspected multi-dimensional code component.

Abstract: A method of managing a non-volatile memory module, the method may include: allocating, by a memory controller, logically erased physical blocks of a non-volatile memory module to a spare block pool; allocating, by the memory controller, physical blocks from the spare block pool to become buffer blocks of a buffer of the non-volatile memory module; and controlling, by the memory controller, a utilization of the buffer blocks of the buffer by applying a page based buffer management scheme.

Abstract: A system, computer readable medium and a method for multi-dimensional decoding.

Abstract: A method for converting a measured physical level of a cell into a logical value, in an array of memory cells storing physical levels which diminish over time, the method may include: determining extent of deterioration of the physical levels and determining thresholds accordingly for at least an individual cell in the array; and reading the individual cell including reading a physical level in said cell and converting said physical level into a logical value using at least some of said thresholds, wherein said determining extent of deterioration comprises storing predefined physical levels rather than data-determined physical levels in each of a plurality of cells and determining extent of deterioration by computing deterioration of said predefined physical levels.

Abstract: A system and method for analog encryption and decryption, in which the encryption and encoding processes are interrelated, such that by failing to decrypt the retrieved data, decryption fails.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions for: reading a first group of flash memory cells using a reference read threshold to obtain multiple read results; processing the multiple read results by performing at least one out of calculating a distribution of values of the multiple read results and counting a number of read results of a certain value; estimating at least one actual read threshold to be used during future read attempts in response to at least one out of (i) the number of read results of the certain value and (ii) distribution information about a distribution of values of the read results; and reading a second group of flash memory cells using the at least one actual read threshold to provide actual read results.

Abstract: Systems, computer readable media and methods for updating a flash memory device involve procedures for transferring, from a flash memory device to an external controller, only a portion of a data entity; and determining, by the external controller, based upon the portion of the data entity, whether to complete a copy back operation of the data entity or to correct errors of the data entity. If it is determined to correct errors of the data entity, then the procedure includes (a) completing a transfer of the data entity to the external controller; (b) error correcting the data entity to provide an amended data entity; and (c) writing the amended data entity to the flash memory device. If, however, it is determined to complete the copy back operation then the procedures includes completing the copy back operation of the data entity by transferring the data entity within the flash memory device.

Abstract: A computer readable medium, a system and a method for flash memory device parameter optimization, the method may include: receiving or generating an estimate of a wear level of at least one group of flash memory cells of the flash memory device, and finding erase parameters and programming parameters to be applied on one or more groups of flash memory cells of the flash memory device in response to estimate of the wear level.

Abstract: A system, a method and a non-transitory computer readable medium for generating soft information. The method may include performing a first set of read attempts of flash memory cells using a first set of read thresholds to provide first read results; calculating for each flash memory cell in response to the first read results, first cell information indicative of a first change-inducing read threshold; performing a second set of read attempts of the flash memory cells using a second set of read thresholds to provide second read results, calculating for each flash memory cell in response to the second read results, second cell information indicative of a second change-inducing read threshold; and generating, for each flash memory cell soft information in response to the first cell information and the second cell information of the flash memory cell.

Abstract: A method, a computer readable medium and a system for managing flash memory. The method may include receiving multiple data sectors from an interface; writing the multiple data sectors into a data buffer that is nonvolatile; creating a pointer in a data management structure that is stored in a metadata buffer that is nonvolatile, for each data sector corresponding to a storage location of the data sector in the data buffer; if a predefined condition is reached, merging data sectors stored in the data buffer with data sectors that are already stored in a sequential nonvolatile portion of the flash memory device, wherein the sequential nonvolatile portion differs from the data buffer.

Abstract: A flash memory controller, a computer readable medium and a method. The method may include performing, by a flash memory controller, multiple read attempts of a group of flash memory cells, using multiple read thresholds, to provide multiple read results; determining, by the flash memory controller and based upon the multiple read results, a reliability metric of each of the multiple read results; and error correction decoding the multiple read results based upon reliability metrics associated with the multiple read results.

Abstract: A system and method for reading memory cells in a multi-level cell memory device. A set of thresholds may be received for reading a current page of the memory cells. The set of threshold may include hard decision thresholds for hard decoding, soft decision thresholds for soft decoding, erase thresholds for erase decoding and/or other combinations of thresholds. The set of thresholds may be divided into a plurality of groups of thresholds. The current page may be simultaneously read using multiple thresholds, where each of the multiple thresholds is divided into a different group of thresholds.