Toshiba Memory Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kioxia Corporation

Mitsuru Anazawa

Norikazu Yoshida

Takashi Yamaguchi

Yoon Tze Chin

Toshikatsu Hida

Mitsunori Tadokoro

Shohei Asami

Hiroyasu Nakatsuka

A switch according to an embodiment includes a first PCIe interface that can be connected to a host on the basis of a PCIe standard. In addition, the switch includes a plurality of second PCIe interfaces that can be connected to a plurality of storage devices, respectively, on the basis of the PCIe standard. The switch further includes a control unit that distributes an access request which is comply with an NVMe standard and is transmitted from the host to any one of the plurality of second PCIe interfaces. The distribution includes a process of constructing an NVMe command of the access request and a process of constructing a data transmission descriptor list of the access request.

Switch and memory device

A storage device comprises a nonvolatile memory, a controller that controls access to the nonvolatile memory, and a power circuit that supplies power to the nonvolatile memory and the controller. The power circuit can control the supply of power to at least parts of the nonvolatile memory and at least parts of the controller. The controller executes a data save process when a sleep transition request is received from the host requesting at least one of a plurality of sleep states according to a requested sleep state of the sleep transition request. The controller provides the host with state transition determination information that includes at one of a power consumption amount for a transition to a sleep state from an idle state and power consumption amount for a transition from the sleep state to the idle state.

Storage device and a power control method for storage device

A memory system includes first and second non-volatile memories and a memory controller respectively connected to the first and second non-volatile memories via first and second channels. The memory controller executes a first read operation of reading first data from the first non-volatile memory and a second read operation of reading second data from the second non-volatile memory in parallel in response to a first read request received from the outside, and sets a first transfer rate of the first channel to be lower than a second transfer rate of the second channel when a first time at which the first read operation is scheduled to be completed is earlier than a second time at which the second read operation is scheduled to be completed.

Determining a transfer rate for channels of a memory system

According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller executes access to the nonvolatile memory based on a command from a host device. The controller includes a processor, a data memory and a monitoring circuit. The monitoring circuit monitors writing to the data memory by a certain processing circuit in the controller and transmits a first notification to the processor when receiving the writing.

Memory system and controller

A memory system includes non-volatile memory. The memory system includes a controller that controls data transfer between a host and the non-volatile memory, and a power supply unit that supplies a voltage to the controller. Further, the controller includes a power supply control unit that determines the voltage supplied to a module in the controller on the basis of an operation condition determined with the host. The power supply unit adjusts the voltage supplied to the module in accordance with a command from the power supply control unit.

A memory including non-volatile memory. The memory system also includes a controller that controls data transfer between a host and the non-volatile memory, and a power supply unit that supplies a voltage to the controller. Further, the controller includes a power supply control unit that determines the voltage supplied to a module in the controller on the basis of an operation condition determined with the host. The power supply unit adjusts the voltage supplied to the module in accordance with a command from the power supply control unit.

According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a volatile memory, a nonvolatile memory, and a controller which is configured to turn off a power of the volatile memory after storing data of the volatile memory in the nonvolatile memory in a first mode, turn on the power of the volatile memory in the second mode, and change a first timing as a future timing switching to the first mode based on a second timing as a past timing switching to the second mode.

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Sagamihara, Japan

Mitsuru Anazawa