Skhynix Inc.

Hideep Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Corporation

Young Ick Cho

In Yong Jung

Jae Young Lee

Jung Hoon Kim

Byeong Gyu Park

Sung Kwan Hong

Sang Sic Yoon

Seung Gu Ji

Sung Hun Jeon

Dong Hoon Lee

Wan-Soo Choi

Won Pil Yu

Eun Young You

Heesung Chae

Sung Chul Lee

Chi Heon Kim

Sang Hoon Yoo

Young Sun Youn

Lim Kim

Jong Myung Lee

Jong Jun Park

A storage device and an operating method of a storage controller are provided. The storage device comprises a non-volatile memory device, each including a plurality of physical blocks, the physical block includes a plurality of sub-blocks and a storage controller including a free block list and a victim selectable block list for the plurality of physical blocks. The storage controller configured to check full reusable physical blocks in the free block list and select a head of the checked block when there are not enough free blocks for storing data in response to a write request received from a host. The storage controller further configured to perform a garbage collection based on the victim selectable block list and to transmit an address of the physical block subjected to the garbage collection to the non-volatile memory device together with the write request.

Storage device and an operating method of a storage controller

The disclosed technology relates to an electronic device. According to the disclosed technology, a memory controller for a storage device for storing data in connection with a host in communication with the storage device includes a recommendation signal manager configured to store a plurality of recommendation signals that recommends activating a memory area of the host that stores mapping information in the memory area of the host, and a host controller configured to provide at least one of the plurality of recommendation signals to the host according to whether a number of recommendation signals provided to the host is less than a threshold value.

Memory controller and method of operating the same

A storage device includes: a nonvolatile memory configured to store map data; and a controller configured to divide map data to be uploaded among the map data into a plurality of map units and to process a normal read command queued in a command queue, after encoding a first map unit of the plurality of map units and before encoding a next map unit, among the plurality of map units, to be encoded after encoding of the first map unit is completed.

Storage device with improved read latency and operating method thereof

The storage device includes: a memory device including a plurality of user blocks and a system block; a buffer memory for storing a physical-to-logical table, and a memory controller for controlling the memory device to update map data stored in the system block, based on the physical-to-logical table, and to store the updated map data in the system block, after logical addresses of the physical-to-logical table are all allocated.

Storage device and operating method thereof

An operating method of a memory system includes determining that a map management operation is triggered, based on physical-to-logical (P2L) entries generated after a previous map management operation is completed, wherein the P2L entries respectively correspond to physical addresses of a memory region of a storage medium; generating a pre-update table corresponding to the memory region based on the P2L entries regardless of whether a write operation of the storage medium is completed; updating L2P entries based on the P2L entries after the write operation is completed; and generating, a new original update table by merging the pre-update table and an original update table corresponding to the memory region when the original update table is present in the storage medium and generating, after the L2P entries are updated, the pre-update table as the new original update table when the original update table is not present in the storage medium.

Memory system and operating method thereof

A controller may include a memory configured to store a map update list in which information of map segments whose mapping information is to be updated is registered The controller may also include an unmap module. The unmap module may, in response to receiving an unmap command, generate a list information bitmap indicating map segments which are already registered in the map update list, check, using the generate list information bitmap, whether one or more unmap target map segments corresponding to the unmap command overlap the map segments registered in the map update list, using the generate list information bitmap, and selectively register the one or more unmap target map segments into the map update list according to the check result.

Controller, operating method thereof and storage device including the same

A data storage device includes a memory array including a plurality of memory cells; and a controller in communication with the memory array and configured to: store, in a map update buffer, one or more map segments including one or more logical address to be unmapped; determine, among logical address to physical address (L2P) entries of the one or more map segments stored in the map update buffer, L2P entries having the same memory block number; and selectively perform a first unmap operation or a second unmap operation according to whether all the L2P entries stored in the map update buffer have the same memory block number.

Data storage device and operating method thereof

A memory controller configured to control a memory device may include: a metadata storage configured to store a plurality of metadata segments; a metadata updater configured to sequentially update the metadata segments; a backup data storage configured to store at least one original metadata segment (a metadata segment existing before being updated) among the metadata segments; a metadata backup circuit configured to store, before a selected metadata segment among the metadata segments is updated, an original metadata segment of the selected metadata segment in the backup data storage; and a metadata restorer configured to generate storage inhibit information indicating whether storing data in the memory device is inhibited based on a residual storage capacity of the memory device, and store, in the metadata storage, the original metadata segment stored in the backup data storage in response to the storage inhibit information while the metadata segments are updated.

A data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device including an address mapping table; a memory including a sequential map table in which sequential map entries for consecutive logical block addresses among logical block addresses are stored, the logical block addresses being received with write requests from a host device; and a processor configured to read one or more map segments, including logical block addresses of which mapping information is to be updated, from the address mapping table when a map update operation is triggered, store the read one or more map segments in the memory, sequentially change physical block addresses mapped to the respective logical block addresses to be updated, using a first sequential map entry including the logical block addresses to be updated which are stored in the sequential map table, and store the changed physical block addresses in the memory.

Provided herein may be a storage device and a method of operating the storage device. The storage device includes a memory controller having a map manager and preload mapping information storage, and a memory device having logical-to-physical mapping information. The memory controller determines and obtains from the memory device, preloads mapping information, and then stores the preload mapping information in the preload mapping information storage, before a map update operation of the logical-to-physical mapping information is performed. The preload mapping information includes logical-to-physical mapping information to be updated.

Storage device having enhanced map update speed and method thereof

A data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device and a memory having an unmap command queue configured to store an unmap command received from a host, and a sequential unmap table configured to store a sequential unmap entry corresponding to an unmap command for sequential logical addresses, and a controller including a first core and a second core. The second core configured to read an unmap-target map segment including the sequential logical addresses from an address mapping table stored in the nonvolatile memory device, store the read unmap-target map segment in the memory, and change, within the stored unmap-target map segment, physical addresses mapped to the sequential logical addresses to trim instruction data at the same time, the trim instruction data being included in the sequential map entry.

Data storage device for processing a sequential unmap entry by using trim instruction data and operating method thereof

A data storage device may include: a nonvolatile memory device; and a controller configured to control an operation of the nonvolatile memory device. In response to an unmap command is received from a host, the controller may generate an unmap descriptor including logical block addresses to be trimmed, stores the generated unmap descriptor, and transfer a response signal to the host. The response signal indicates that an unmap caching operation corresponding to the unmap command is completed.

Data storage device capable of reducing latency for an unmap command, and operating method thereof

A data storage device may include a non-volatile memory device storing an address mapping table including a plurality of map segments and a controller including a random-access memory. The controller loads a compressed or non-compressed first map segment into the random-access memory based on meta-information of the first map segment in response to a read request received from a host device. The meta-information is stored in a map segment meta-information table stored in the random-access memory and the meta-information represents whether the map segments are compressible or not.

A data storage device includes: a non-volatile memory device, a random access memory and a processor. The non-volatile memory device stores a plurality of L2P entries related to a plurality of logical addresses. The random access memory stores a sequential flag table including sequential flags for a plurality of sequential segments. Each of the sequential flags are flags representing whether physical addresses corresponding to the logical addresses of the sequential segments are sequential or not. The processor identifies a sequential flag of a sequential segment related to read logical address information based on the sequential flag table. The processor reads at least one of the L2P entries, which are correspond to the read logical address information based on the sequential flag and loads the read L2P entry into the random access memory.

Data storage device to identify and process a sequential read request and operating method thereof

An electrode sheet disposed in a touch input device capable of detecting a pressure of a touch on a touch surface may be provided. The touch input device includes: a display module; a pressure electrode disposed under the display module; and a reference pressure electrode disposed under the display module. A distance between the pressure electrode and a reference potential layer is changed when the pressure is applied to the touch surface. A capacitance detected at the pressure electrode is changed according to the distance change. A magnitude of the pressure applied to the touch surface is calculated on the basis of a difference between a reference capacitance calculated from a capacitance detected at the reference pressure electrode and a detected capacitance calculated from the capacitance detected at the pressure electrode.

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Young Ick Cho