Silicon Motion, Inc.

Lien-Yu Lee

Shen-Ting Chiu

The invention is related to an apparatus and a method for driving redundant array of independent disks (RAID) engine. The method, performed by a RAID controller in a RAID pre-processor, including: completing a driving operation for performing a series of physical-layer signal interactions with a RAID engine according to a driving value in the configuration register. The driving value corresponds to a command issued by a processing unit. The processing unit performs an operation irrelevant from an encoding or a decoding of a parity of a page group in parallel of the driving operation by the RAID controller in coordination with the RAID engine.

Apparatus and method for driving redundant array of independent disks (RAID) engine

The invention introduces an apparatus for searching linked lists at least including: a memory arranged to operably store a linked list; a linked-list search engine arranged to operably search content of the linked list until a search success or fail and generate a search result; and a processing unit arranged to operably write the content of the linked list into the memory, drive the linked-list search engine to start a search on the linked list and obtain the search result from the linked-list search engine.

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Hsinchu County, Taiwan

Lien-Yu Lee