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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2018
Applicant:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, TW;
Inventors:
Ching-Ke Chen, Zhubei, TW;
Chin-Fen Tung, Tainan, TW;
Assignee:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11C 8/12 (2006.01); G11C 16/22 (2006.01); G11C 29/44 (2006.01); G11C 29/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0614 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G11C 8/12 (2013.01); G11C 16/22 (2013.01); G11C 29/52 (2013.01); G11C 2029/4402 (2013.01);
Abstract
A non-volatile memory operated through multiple channels. The non-volatile memory includes a plurality of chip-enable-signal controlled areas, each containing a plurality of dies. Simultaneous operations on the different dies of at least one target chip-enable-signal controlled space corresponding to a target channel are allowed. The control unit scans the non-volatile memory to check the health status of the dies of the target chip-enable-signal controlled space to assign a plurality of logical enable signals of the target channel to correspond to the dies of the target chip-enable-signal controlled space.