Patent ID: 9146805
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A data protecting method for controlling a rewritable non-volatile memory module, wherein the rewritable non-volatile memory module comprises a plurality of word lines, a plurality of bit lines, and a plurality of memory cells, each of the memory cells is located on one of the word lines and one of the bit lines, and the memory cells form a plurality of physical erasing units, the data protecting method comprising: storing data into a plurality of first memory cells of the memory cells, wherein the first memory cells are located on a plurality of first word lines of the word lines and a plurality of first bit lines of the bit lines; and generating, by an error checking and correcting circuit, a first error correcting code by using first data of the data stored in the first memory cells, wherein the first data is only stored in one memory cell of each of the first bit lines among the first memory cells.