Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Kyu-ho Park

Joo-Young Hwang

Young-woo Park

Jin-kyu Kim

Hyung-gyu Lee

Kyoung-Il Bang

Seung-ho Lim

A memory system includes a variable resistance memory configured to input and output data by a first unit and a translation layer for managing the degree of wear of the variable resistance memory by a second unit, different from the first unit.

Memory system and wear leveling method thereof

Provided are a flash memory management apparatus and method which divide blocks of a memory into data blocks and i-node blocks and respectively specify storage paths of data, which is stored in the data blocks, in the i-node blocks in order to easily access pieces of the data by searching the i-node blocks. The flash memory management apparatus includes a map search module searching for a map block located at a preset position of a memory among blocks that form the memory and extracting storage paths of one or more i-node blocks; a path search module searching for storage paths of data specified in the i-node blocks based on the extraction result; and a data management module accessing the data through a storage path of the data and performs a transaction on the data.

Flash memory management system and apparatus

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Daejeon-si, South Korea

Kyu-ho Park