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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2018
Applicant:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11C 29/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/108 (2013.01); G06F 3/06 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G11C 2029/0411 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment of a method for accessing a storage unit of a flash memory, performed by an arbiter, is disclosed to include at least the following steps. After transmitting data to first storage units each connected to one of storage-unit access interfaces in a first batch, the arbiter issues a data write command to each first storage unit, thereby enabling each first storage unit to start a physical data programming. During the physical data programming of each first storage unit, data is transmitted to second storage units each connected to one of the storage-unit access interfaces in a second batch.