Patent ID: 7424593

Claim:
A non-volatile memory system comprising: memory control circuitry; and a non-volatile memory unit coupled to the memory control circuitry and including one or more non-volatile memory devices organized into sectors, a sector including storage locations for a plurality of sectors of information, a sector of information being an even sector of information or an odd sector of information, even and odd sectors of information each including user data and overhead, the memory control circuitry for programming of user data of at least one even sector of information into a sector of a first non-volatile memory device and for programming of overhead of the at least one even sector of information into a sector of a second non-volatile memory device and for programming user data of at least one odd sector of information into the sector of the second non-volatile memory device and for programming the overhead of the at least one odd sector of information into the sector of the second non-volatile memory device, wherein sectors of information are programmed into at least two non-volatile memory devices simultaneously.