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Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 14, 2018
Applicant:

Silicon Motion Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;

Inventor:

Ming-Yen Lin, Taipei, TW;

Assignee:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0634 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0658 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G11C 11/5628 (2013.01); G11C 2211/5641 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method applied into a memory controller coupled between a memory device and a host device wherein the memory device supports at least two different storing modes includes: receiving and buffering data transmitted from the host device; using a first storing mode to store a first data unit into the memory device, a size of the first data unit being not larger than a size of a specific storage unit defined in the memory device; and using a second storing mode, different from the first storing mode, to store a second data unit into the memory device, a size of the second data unit being larger than the size of the specific storage unit.


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