Sandisk Technologies Inc.

Amit Alon

Shay Benisty

Moshe Karni

In addition to transmitting over the ASIC-NAND bus the legacy long command format, a data storage device will be able to use also a compressed/improved command format. The alternate command's format is hidden from most parts of the NAND. The NAND can have a layer that will translate compressed/non standard commands to the legacy (standard) format for use by the rest of the NAND device's logic, as currently implemented. According to selected command format, the Low Level Flow Sequencer (LLFS) sequence generator and the flash interface module (FIM) will know which format to use in order to encode the command's content for transmission to the NAND by the FIM/ASIC/controller. The command is then executed on the NAND side according to the selected command scheme. Changes will be applied in the device controller on the ASIC side—to encode the command, and on the NAND side—to decode the command according to the selected format. The controller on the ASIC side decides on the desired format and is responsible to sync any format change with the NAND before sending a command in a different format than currently agreed between the controller and the NAND.

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