Silicon Motion, Inc.

Feiya Technology Corp.

Jou-Wei Fu

Bing-Fei Wu

Cheng-Chih Chien

Wen-Chung Chang

Chung-Chi Tien

Lung-Yi Kuo

A device for prolonging the lifetime of a nonvolatile memory is applied to the connection between a host electronic machine and a nonvolatile memory device. The device includes a RAM (Random Access Memory) buffer zone, a counter, and two sets of inverters, wherein the RAM buffer zone is employed to store a unit data train temporarily; the counter is used to count the total bits of logic '0'; the inverters are used to lessen the times for readying/writing a nonvolatile memory device by inverting the unit data train based on the count (for example, when the number of logic '&#x201c;s exceeds the number of logic &#x201c;&#x201c;s, and the state flag keeps track of whether an inversion has occurred or is needed.

Device for prolonging lifetime of nonvolatile memory

A global positioning system (GPS) card reader comprises a bus connection interface, a GPS module, a universal asynchronous receiver transmitter (UART) coupled with the GPS module and a complex programmable logic circuit comprising a complex programmable logic device. The complex programmable logic circuit connects with the bus connection interface and comprises at least: a card information structural (CIS) memory, am address decoder, a power control register, and a storage card coupling for connecting a storage card.

GPS card reader

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Hsinchu, Taiwan

Jou-Wei Fu