Sandisk Technologies Inc.

Vsevolod Mountaniol

Jian Feng Chen

Alon Marcu

Ashish Karkare

Robert S Wu

Shahar Bar-Or

A method and system for using non-volatile memory as a replacement for volatile memory are provided. In one embodiment, a host is in communication with a memory system having volatile memory, a first non-volatile memory, and a second non-volatile memory, wherein the first non-volatile memory has a faster performance and a higher endurance than the second non-volatile memory. The host analyzes data to be stored in the volatile memory to determine if it should instead be stored in the first non-volatile memory. If the data should be stored in the volatile memory, the host stores the data in the volatile memory. If the data should be stored in the first non-volatile memory, the host stores the data in the first non-volatile memory.

Method and system for using non-volatile memory as a replacement for volatile memory

The following embodiments generally relate to the use of a 'swap area' in a non-volatile memory as an extension to volatile memory in a computing device. These embodiments include techniques to use both volatile memory and non-volatile swap memory to pre-load a plurality of applications, to control the bandwidth of swap operations, to encrypt data stored in the swap area, and to perform a fast clean-up of the swap area.

Method and computing device for controlling bandwidth of swap operations

Method and computing device for using both volatile memory and non-volatile swap memory to pre-load a plurality of applications

Method and computing device for encrypting data stored in swap memory

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