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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2017
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Dongyan Jiang, San Jose, CA (US);
Changhui Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Krishna Malladi, San Jose, CA (US);
Jongmin Gim, Milpitas, CA (US);
Hongzhong Zheng, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Abstract
A memory module includes a host interface configured to provide an interface to a host computer; one or more memory devices; a deduplication engine configured to provide a virtual memory capacity of the memory module that is larger than a physical size of the one or more memory devices; a memory controller for controlling access to the one or more memory devices; a volatile memory comprising a hash table, an overflow memory region, and a credit unit, wherein the overflow memory region stores user data when a hash collision occurs or the hash table is full, and wherein the credit unit stores an address of an invalidated entry in the overflow memory region; and a control logic is configured to control the overflow memory region and the credit unit and generate a warning indicating a status of the overflow memory region and the credit unit.