Patent ID: 8539195

Claim:
A system comprising: a plurality of chips comprising a first chip and a second chip, wherein each of the plurality of chips comprise an array of memory cells, wherein each of the arrays of memory cells comprises rows of memory cells, and wherein each of the rows of memory cells is configured to store a predetermined amount of data; and a control module configured to (i) receive data, (ii) encode the data to generate blocks of encoded data, (iii) store a first portion of one of the blocks of encoded data in a first selected number row of the first chip, and (iv) store a remaining portion of the one of the blocks of encoded data in a second selected number row of the second chip, wherein an amount of data in each of the blocks of encoded data is more than the predetermined amount of data, and wherein the second selected number row is a same number row or a higher number row than the first selected number row.