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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2018
Applicant:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, TW;
Inventor:
Sheng-Hsun Lin, Magong, TW;
Assignee:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1044 (2013.01); G06F 2212/152 (2013.01); G06F 2212/2022 (2013.01); G06F 2212/657 (2013.01);
Abstract
A data storage device is provided. The data storage device includes: a flash memory and a microcontroller. The flash memory includes a plurality of physical blocks. The microcontroller selects one source block and one destination block from the plurality of physical blocks, and performs a garbage collection operation according to a check map corresponding to the selected source block to copy data stored in one or more valid physical addresses of the source block to the selected destination block.
Lin, Sheng-Hsun. (2020). Data storage device and method of performing partial garbage collection (U.S. Patent No. 10657047). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10657047
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