摘要:
A method of executing an erasing instruction to erase host data from a flash memory device is provided. The method initiates with receiving from a host device an erase instruction to erase host data from an array of NAND flash memory cells grouped into separately-erasable device blocks, each device block including multiple device pages, the host data being a portion of device data that is stored in a device block. The host data is marked as erased, and a message is sent to the host device indicating that the host data has been erased.
摘要:
A controller for one type of NAND flash memory device that emulates another type of NAND flash memory device. The controller may include a host NAND interface to receive host data from a NAND host device, and a data aggregator for aggregating the host data with complementary data, to thereby create device data that is storable in a device page of an array of NAND flash memory cells of the NAND flash memory device. After creating the device data the controller writes the device data into a device page of the NAND flash memory cells. The controller also includes a data parser to parse host data from device data when data read operations are executed by the controller. If required, the controller uses the data parser to parse complementary data from device data to create device data when data writing operations are executed by the controller.
摘要:
A method for writing into a flash memory device includes calculating a physical block for writing data thereto, checking whether the calculated physical block has been erased since a last power-up of the device and if it has been erased writing the data, or, if it has not been erased performing a refresh operation thereby obtaining a newly erased block since a last power-up that the data can be written to. The newly erased block may be the calculated block or another block of the flash memory.
摘要:
A driver for a data storage device includes an access command and a verification command. The access command initiates an access (write, erase or read) of the data storage device while allowing a calling application to continue running without having to wait for the completion of the access. The verification command queries a preceding access. If the query indicates failure of the preceding access, the verification command repeats the preceding access until the preceding access succeeds. The verification command is called by the access command before the access command initiates a new access. The verification command also is called by an application following a sequence of related access command calls. A write access command saves the data to be written in a memory separate from the data storage device, in case the verification command needs that data to repeat a failed write.