Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Data storage device and flash memory control method
- Patent Title (中): 数据存储设备和闪存控制方法
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Application No.: US14100627Application Date: 2013-12-09
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Publication No.: US08984171B2Publication Date: 2015-03-17
- Inventor: Kuan-Yu Ke
- Applicant: Silicon Motion, Inc.
- Applicant Address: TW Jhubei, Hsinchu County
- Assignee: Silicon Motion, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Silicon Motion, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Jhubei, Hsinchu County
- Agency: McClure, Qualey & Rodack, LLP
- Priority: TW102107205A 20130301; TW102107206A 20130301
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F12/02 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F13/00

Abstract:
A data storage device and a FLASH memory control method with a cache space. The FLASH memory control method includes the following steps: using a plurality of channels to access a FLASH memory, wherein the FLASH memory has a plurality of blocks each with a plurality of pages, and the blocks are grouped to be accessed by the different channels; allocating a random access memory to provide a cache space, the cache space having a plurality of cache areas caching write data for the different channels, respectively; distributing the data issued from a host to correspond to the different channels; and reusing a latest-updated cache area of the cache space to cache write data when a logical address requested to be written with data is identical to a logical address that the latest-updated cache area corresponds to.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140250259A1 DATA STORAGE DEVICE AND FLASH MEMORY CONTROL METHOD Public/Granted day:2014-09-04
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