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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 17, 2014
Applicant:

Sandisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Inventors:

Eran Erez, San Jose, CA (US);

Cynthia Hsu, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

SanDisk Technologies LLC, Plano, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/30 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 1/3275 (2013.01); G06F 3/0625 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G11C 16/04 (2013.01); G11C 16/30 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1228 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1246 (2013.01); Y02D 10/14 (2018.01); Y02D 10/154 (2018.01);
Abstract

A storage module and method for scheduling memory operations for peak-power management and balancing are provided. In one embodiment, a storage module maintains a count of time slots over a period of time. The period of time corresponds to an amount of time between periodic power peaks of a memory operation. For each time slot, the storage module determines whether to commence a memory operation on one or more of the plurality of memory dies based on whether a power peak generated in the time slot by the memory operation would exceed a power threshold allowed for the time slot. Other embodiments are provided.


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