17x Reliability Enhanced LDPC Code with Burst-Error Masking and High-Precision LLR for Highly Reliable Solid-State-Drives with TLC NAND Flash Memory

Highly reliable LDPC ECC is introduced to improve the reliability of solid-state drives (SSDs). Although conventional AEP-LDPC ECC [3] is 12x highly reliable than BCH ECC, its error-correction capability is degraded due to the burst-errors and inaccurate log- likelihood ratio (LLR). To improve the reliability of TLC NAND flash, this paper proposes the burst-error masking (BEM) and program-disturb merged LLR estimation (PMLE). The first proposal, BEM eliminates the burst- errors by recording the error-location to the table. The second proposal, PMLE calculates the ratio of program-disturb errors to data-retention errors. As a result, more precise LLR is obtained. By combining BEM and PMLE, the SSD lifetime is extended by 17x and the table size overhead is reduced by 81%.