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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2017
Applicant:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;
Inventors:
Li-Shuo Hsiao, Chiayi, TW;
Chang-Kai Cheng, Hsinchu, TW;
Assignee:
SILICON MOTION, INC., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 11/1016 (2013.01); G06F 12/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides a data-storage device including a flash memory and a controller. The flash memory includes a plurality of blocks, and each of the blocks has a plurality of pages, wherein each of the pages has a plurality of sub-pages and a plurality of spare areas, each of the spare areas is arranged to store a spare data sector, and the spare data sector respectively corresponds to the sub-pages. The controller is arranged to access the sub-pages according to the spare data sector.