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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2016
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Arup De, Milpitas, CA (US);
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In general, techniques are described by which to provide an interface architecture for storage devices. A storage device comprising non-volatile memory, and a hardware controller may be configured to perform various aspects of the techniques. The hardware controller may be configured to read from or write to one or more data registers in a host device to provide a direct communication channel between each of one or more threads executed by one or more processors of the host device and the hardware controller. The hardware controller may further be configured to send a plurality of commands received from the direct communication channel into a hardware queue, and issue access requests based on the plurality of commands to read data from or write data to the non-volatile memory.