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公开(公告)号:US20180196743A1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-12
申请号:US15404407
申请日:2017-01-12
Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Jeffrey L. McVay , Daniel J. Hubbard , Robert W. Strong , Michael B. Danielson , Jonathan Tanguy
Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for directed sanitization of memory. One example method comprises, responsive to receiving a sanitization command, performing a deterministic garbage collection operation on a memory, wherein performing the deterministic garbage collection operation results in physical erasure of all invalid data stored on the memory without losing valid data stored on the memory.