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- Patent Title: Data storage device with hierarchical mapping information management, and non-volatile memory control method
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Application No.: US17112027Application Date: 2020-12-04
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Publication No.: US11416151B2Publication Date: 2022-08-16
- Inventor: Hsueh-Chun Fu
- Applicant: Silicon Motion, Inc.
- Applicant Address: TW Jhubei
- Assignee: Silicon Motion, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Silicon Motion, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Jhubei
- Agency: McClure, Qualey & Rodack, LLP
- Priority: TW109100257 20200106
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06

Abstract:
An efficient mapping information management technology for non-volatile memory is disclosed. When a host requests to access data of a first logical address, a microprocessor of a controller of the non-volatile memory loads a first sub-mapping table from the non-volatile memory to a volatile memory. The microprocessor loads hierarchical pointer tables related to the first logical address into the volatile memory. Among the hierarchical pointer tables, each higher-level pointer table lists non-volatile memory physical addresses of lower-level pointer tables. A non-volatile memory physical address of the first sub-mapping table is obtained from a first pointer table according to a first index, for the microprocessor to load the first sub-mapping table from the non-volatile memory into the volatile memory for mapping information of the first logical address, and the first pointer table is in the lowest level among the hierarchical pointer tables loaded in the volatile memory.
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