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Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 20, 2018
Applicant:

Silicon Motion Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;

Inventors:

Wei-Lun Yan, Hsinchu, TW;

Ming-Yen Lin, Taipei, TW;

Chin-Pang Chang, Taoyuan, TW;

Assignee:

Silicon Motion Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01); G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 11/5628 (2013.01); G11C 11/5671 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for performing writing management in a memory device, the memory device, and the controller thereof are provided. The method may include: writing first partial data of even-page data into a non-volatile (NV) memory; transmitting a first set of commands without a confirmation command to the NV memory, to write the first partial data and second partial data of the even-page data into an internal buffer within the NV memory; transmitting a second set of commands and the confirmation command to the NV memory, to write the first partial data and the second partial data into a block of the NV memory; writing third partial data of odd-page data into the NV memory; and writing the first and the second partial data into an even page of another block of the NV memory, and writing the third and fourth partial data into an odd page of this block.


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