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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2018
Shenzhen Epostar Electronics Limited Co., Shenzhen, CN;
Yu-Hua Hsiao, Hsinchu County, TW;
Hung-Chih Hsieh, Hsinchu County, TW;
Shenzhen EpoStar Electronics Limited CO., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
A memory management method is provided. The method includes performing a garbage collection command; generating a garbage collection information table having a predetermined size according to one or more recycled block stripes, and writing the garbage collection information table into a target block stripe, wherein the garbage collection information table includes an identification tag, a local recycled block stripe list and first padding data; reading valid data in the one or more recycled block stripes, and writing the valid data into the target block stripe, wherein the written valid data is behind and immediately adjacent to the garbage collection information table being written to; and closing the target block stripe, and adding the local recycled block stripe list into a global recycled block stripe list in a buffer memory, so as to complete the garbage collection command.