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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
May. 10, 2017
Applicant:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;
Inventor:
Li-Shuo Hsiao, Zhudong Township, Hsinchu County, TW;
Assignee:
SILICON MOTION, INC., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/34 (2006.01); G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/34 (2013.01); G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 16/26 (2013.01);
Abstract
A detection method for detecting a programming operation of a flash memory includes issuing a program command of the programming operation to the flash memory, by a controller, issuing a first read status command to the flash memory, by the controller, before a page program time of the flash memory has been reached, and determining whether the programming operation is performed in the flash memory according to a first memory status corresponding to the first read status command provided by the flash memory.