Abstract: A memory system may include a nonvolatile memory device and a wear leveling unit. The nonvolatile memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks. The wear leveling unit may be configured to intermittently increase an accumulative access count of a memory block among the memory blocks by a predetermined value, decide a wear level of the memory block based on the accumulative access count whenever the accumulative access count is increased, set the memory block to a hot block based on the wear level, and perform a hot block management operation on the hot block. The wear leveling unit may increase the accumulative access count in response to an access count reaching a predetermined value. The accumulative access count may be stored in the nonvolatile memory device, and the access count may be stored in a volatile memory device.

Abstract: A memory system includes a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, a first detection block suitable for detecting a hot memory block based on a number of times that a write operation is performed among the memory blocks during the write operation, a second detection block suitable for detecting first memory blocks based on the number of times that the write operation is performed among the memory blocks and detecting a cold memory block based on addresses of the first memory blocks, when the hot memory block is detected, and a wear-leveling block suitable for swapping data of the hot memory block for data of the cold memory block.

Abstract: A memory system includes: a memory device, including a plurality of memory cells, suitable for reading and writing data with a parity bit on a basis of a page; and a memory controller suitable for obtaining an error mask pattern based on compressed data when a number of error bits detected based on the data and the parity bit is equal to or less than a first threshold value and greater than a second threshold value, and controlling to write the compressed data, the parity bit updated based on the compressed data in which the error mask pattern is reflected, compression information on the compressed data and pattern information on the error mask pattern to the page.

Abstract: A memory module includes a first memory device that includes first circuit nodes for communication with a memory controller and second circuit nodes for communication inside the memory module, a second memory device that includes first circuit nodes for communication with the memory controller and second circuit nodes for communication inside the memory module, and an internal data bus that couples the first memory device to the second memory device to carry data between the second circuit nodes of the first memory device and the second circuit nodes of the second memory device. When an internal read command is applied to the first memory device and an internal write command is applied to the second memory device, data is transferred from the first memory device to the second memory device through the internal data bus.

Abstract: A memory system includes a memory device comprising first to Nth memory regions, wherein N is a natural number equal to or more than 2, and a memory controller suitable for checking numbers of first logic level data which are contained in first to Nth data groups to be written to the memory device, respectively, and writing the first to Nth data groups to the first to Nth memory regions in order based on the checked numbers.

Abstract: A memory system includes a memory cell array including a plurality of resistive memory cells; a peripheral circuit suitable for providing a set pulse or a reset pulse with write data into a selected memory cell among the resistive memory cells, based on a write command; and a memory controller suitable for providing the write command with the write data to the peripheral circuit and scheduling the write command based on an amount of power consumption calculated depending on the number of either low bits or high bits in the write data.

Abstract: A memory system includes a resistive memory device comprising a memory cell array including a plurality of resistive memory cells and a peripheral circuit; and a memory controller suitable for generating data bus inversion (DBI) information which corresponds to write data based on an access history of the resistive memory cell corresponding to an address of the write data, and providing the DBI information, the address and the write data to the peripheral circuit, wherein the peripheral circuit is suitable for selectively inverting the write data based on the DBI information and writing the selectively inverted write data in a memory cell selected according to the address among the resistive memory cells.

Abstract: A memory system includes: a first cell array including a plurality of memory cells; and a second cell array including a plurality of memory cells; and an address operation circuit suitable for generating a first cell array address, the first cell array address used for accessing at least one first cell in the first cell array, by adding a first value to an address, and generating a second cell array address, the second cell array address used for accessing at least one second cell in the second cell array, by adding a second value to the address.

Abstract: A memory controller may include an address control block. The address control block may be configured to remap a write target address when a number of write data having a first logic level is within a correctable range and when a level of a datum corresponding to the write target address has the first logic level.

Abstract: A memory device includes a memory region; and an access unit suitable for setting an offset value according to control of an external device, changing, in response to an access command of the external device for a first address of the memory region, the first address into a second address of the memory region based on the offset value, and performing an access operation for the second address.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory system including a resistive variable memory device and a driving method thereof are provided. The semiconductor memory system includes a memory controller including a scheduler configured to determine a generation period of a write command; a memory device including a memory cell array, the memory device being configured to write data input from the memory controller in the memory cell array in response to the write command; and a data determination circuit configured to output a change signal to the scheduler when all logic levels of the input data are equal to each other, the scheduler changing the generation period of the write command in response to the change signal.

Abstract: A memory system includes: a memory controller; and a plurality of memory devices each of which includes a plurality of input pads, where signals of different input pads are set as valid signals, wherein when the memory controller transfers a mask command to the memory devices and one or more valid signals among the valid signals of the memory devices are enabled along with the mask command, commands of a first kind among commands that are transferred to the memory devices from the memory controller after the mask command are implemented in one or more memory devices which correspond to the enabled one or more valid signals.

Abstract: A memory controller includes a scheduler that decides a processing order of a plurality of requests provided from an external device with reference to a timing parameter value for each of the requests; and a timing control circuit that adjusts the timing parameter value according to a corresponding address to access a memory device, the corresponding address being used to process a corresponding request of the plurality of requests.

Abstract: A memory controller schedules requests to memory devices according to scores. For this purpose, the memory controller variably adjusts weights for determining the scores with respect to the requests, calculates the scores using the weights, and determines a processing order of the requests according to the scores. The memory controller includes a request queue, a scheduler, and a weight generation circuit. The request queue stores the requests provided from an external device. The scheduler calculates a score for each request included in the request queue and determines the processing order of the requests based on the scores for the requests. The weight generation circuit generates a weight vector including the weights used to calculate the scores.

Abstract: A memory controller includes a request queue that stores requests provided from an external device, a scheduler that calculates a score for each request included in the request queue and determines a processing order of the requests based on the scores for the requests, and a weight generation circuit that generates a weight vector including weights used to calculated the scores.

Abstract: A memory controller includes a scheduler that decides a processing order of a plurality of requests provided from an external device with reference to a timing parameter value for each of the requests; and a timing control circuit that adjusts the timing parameter value according to a corresponding address to access a memory device, the corresponding address being used to process a corresponding request of the plurality of requests.