METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM CONCURRENT READ AND WRITE MEMORY OPERATIONS

摘要

Subject matter disclosed herein relates to read and write processes of a memory device. During a write process to a particular partition in a memory array, a response to a read request of contents of the particular partition may be delayed. In some embodiments, the contents of the particular partition may be indirectly read during the write process without delaying the response to the read request. The contents of the particular partition can be indirectly read by determining the contents of the particular partition based, at least in part, on an error correction code based, at least in part, on contents of memory partitions of the memory array.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving a read request to read contents of a memory array; suspending calculation of an error correction code (ECC) in response to receiving the read request; writing to the memory array while calculation of the ECC is suspended; while writing to the memory array, determining contents of a portion of the memory array based on stored ECC; and subsequently resuming calculation of the ECC.