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A flash memory device, and a method of operating the same, is disclosed. The array of the flash memory device is arranged in pages of memory cells, each page having memory cells associated into groups of memory cells within the page for purposes of fail bit detection in program verification. For example, these groups may correspond to sectors within the page. In a programming operation, the verify process determines whether each group of memory cells within the page has fewer than a selected ignore bit limit for the sector. If not, additional programming is required for the insufficiently programmed cells in the page. By applying a fail bit detection threshold for each of multiple groups within the page, the efficiency of error correction coding in the flash memory is improved. A similar verify and fail bit detection approach may be used in erase and soft programming operations.

The inventive concepts relate to an operation method of an error correction decoder correcting an error of data read from a nonvolatile memory. The operation method may include receiving the data from the nonvolatile memory, performing a first error correction with respect to the received data in a simplified mode, and performing, when the first error correction fails in the simplified mode, a second error correction with respect to the received data in a full mode. When the first error correction of the simplified mode is performed, a part of operations of the second error correction of the full mode may be omitted.

A data processing apparatus and method are provided for processing a received workload in order to generate result data. A thread group generator generates from the received workload a plurality of thread groups to be executed to process the received workload. Each thread group consists of a plurality of threads, and at least one thread group has an inter-thread dependency existing between the plurality of threads. Each thread may be either an active thread whose output is required to form the result data, or a dummy thread required to resolve the inter-thread dependency for one of the active threads but whose output is not required to form the result data. The thread group generator identifies for each thread group any dummy thread within that thread group. A thread execution unit then executes each thread within a thread group received from the thread group generator by executing a predetermined program comprising a plurality of program instructions. Execution flow modification circuitry is responsive to the received thread group having at least one dummy thread, to cause the thread execution unit to selectively omit at least part of the execution of at least one of the plurality of instructions when executing each dummy thread, in dependence on control information associated with the predetermined program. In one particular embodiment the received workload is a graphics rendering workload and the thread execution unit performs graphics rendering operations in order to generate as the result data pixel values and associated control values. Such an approach can yield significant improvements in performance, as well as reducing power consumption.

Disclosed herein relates to a method and apparatus of sleep mode operation in a multi-carrier system. In a communication system of transmitting and receiving data using a multi-carrier including a primary carrier for transmitting and receiving control information and data and a secondary carrier using a radio frequency (RF) different from the primary carrier, a method of establishing a sleep mode operation through active primary and secondary carriers according to an embodiment of the present invention may include transmitting a sleep cycle ID (SCID), a listening window, and traffic indication inactive information indicating that an indication (TRF-IND) as to whether traffic is generated is not transferred to a terminal through the primary carrier, sending downlink data to the terminal through the active primary or secondary carrier during the listening window, and sending a listening window early termination indication indicating to early terminate the listening window of the primary or secondary carrier that has received the downlink data through the primary carrier to the terminal if the data sending is completed.

A method for automatically focusing a camera including the steps of (A) recording a first topology and a second topology, where the second topology occurs temporally after the first topology, and (B) comparing the first topology with the second topology. A focus of the camera is automatically adjusted based upon one or more similarities between the first topology and the second topology.