Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for managing flash memory module and associated flash memory controller and electronic device
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Application No.: US16006854Application Date: 2018-06-13
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Publication No.: US10474573B2Publication Date: 2019-11-12
- Inventor: Kuan-Yu Ke
- Applicant: Silicon Motion Inc.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu County
- Assignee: Silicon Motion Inc.
- Current Assignee: Silicon Motion Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu County
- Agent Winston Hsu
- Priority: TW107101932A 20180119
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F12/02 ; G06F3/06

Abstract:
A method for managing a flash memory module, an associated flash memory controller and an associated electronic device are provided, wherein the method includes: when the flash memory module is powered on, and a garbage collection operation is not finished before the flash memory module is powered on: determining a progress of the garbage collection operation to generate a determination result; and determining to discard a target block in the garbage collection operation or to write dummy data into remaining pages of the target block according to the determination result.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190227926A1 METHOD FOR MANAGING FLASH MEMORY MODULE AND ASSOCIATED FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Public/Granted day:2019-07-25
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