Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Myungsub Shin

Sungho Seo

Kwanwoo Noh

Haesung Jung

Dongwoo Nam

Seongyong Jang

Yongwoo Jeong

Hyunkyu Jang

Youngmin Lee

Gyuseok Choe

Seongheum Baik

A link startup method of a storage device connected to a host through a plurality of lanes includes performing an initialization operation in the storage device; establishing data communication through a connected transmission lane and a connected reception lane among the plurality of lanes; transmitting a high speed link up message to the host through the connected transmission lane of the storage device; and performing a link startup operation in a high speed mode through the connected transmission lane of the storage device and the connected reception lane of the host, based on the high speed link up message transmitted by the storage device.

Storage device for high speed link startup and storage system including the same

A storage device and an operating method of the same are disclosed. The storage device includes a memory controller and a non-volatile memory, wherein the memory controller is configured to calculate a number of zones, which are spaces allocated to logical addresses, based on a cell area size of first storage areas of the non-volatile memory, and provide the number of zones to a host, is configured to generate multiple zones of a number within the calculated number of zones, and to map a logical address of each zone to a physical address of at least one of the first storage areas, and is configured to, in response to a first write request from the host, write data included in the first write request into first storage areas corresponding to a zone indicated by the first write request.

Storage device with variable cell area size and operating method thereof

A storage device and a storage system including the same are provided. The storage device includes a reference clock pin configured to receive a reference clock signal from a host, a reference clock frequency determination circuitry configured to determine a reference clock frequency from the reference clock signal received through the reference clock pin, and a device controller circuitry configured to perform a high speed mode link startup between the host and the storage device according to the reference clock frequency.

Storage device and storage system including the same

A host controller interface configured to provide interfacing between a host device and a storage device includes processing circuitry; a doorbell register configured to store a head pointer and a tail pointer of one or more first queues; and an entry buffer configured to store a first command from one of the one or more first queues in the entry buffer, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to, determine an order in which the commands of the one or more first queues are to be processed, route the first command to be stored in the entry buffer according to the determined order, and route a first response to be stored in one of one or more second queues.

Host controller interface using multiple circular queue, and operating method thereof

Provided are a storage device configured to perform high-speed link startup and a storage system including the storage device. The storage system performs data communication through a connected transmission lane and a connected reception lane from among a plurality of lanes between a host and the storage device. The host transmits an activate period of the connected transmission lane, which is less than a first time period, to the connected reception lane, and the storage device receives the activate period of the connected reception lane, which is less than the first time period. The host and the storage device perform link startup in a high-speed mode through the connected transmission lane and the connected reception lane, based on the activate period being less than the first time period.

Storage device for performing high-speed link startup and storage system including the same

A storage device capable of performing high-speed link startup and a storage system including the storage device are disclosed. A link startup method of the storage device includes receiving a line-reset signal from a host through a line connected to an input signal pin of the storage device, comparing a length of the received line-reset signal with a first reference time, and performing a link startup operation in a high-speed mode or a low-speed mode between the storage device and the host according to a comparing result.

Link startup method of storage device, and storage device, host and system implementing same

An electronic device may include a host device and a storage device which are connected in a universal flash storage standard, wherein the host device may include processing circuitry configured to process a submission queue (SQ) and a completion queue (CQ), wherein the SQ is a processing standby line of a command, and the CQ is a processing standby line of a response received from the storage device, transmit the command to the storage device, store a host command credit in a host command register, the host command credit indicating an estimated command accommodation limit of the storage device, store the response in a response slot, and store a host response credit in a host command register, the host command credit indicating a limit of the response slot.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Myungsub Shin