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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2018
Silicon Motion Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Chiao-Wen Cheng, Taichung, TW;
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Abstract
A method for performing access control in a memory device, the associated memory device and the controller thereof are provided. The method includes: according to at least one predetermined arrangement pattern, writing a plurality of sets of symbols into a plurality of storage regions of a memory as a plurality of redundant array of independent disks (RAID) groups, respectively; and utilizing a RAID engine circuit in the memory device to perform a plurality of operations related to data protection, such as: determining a series of reading patterns corresponding to the predetermined arrangement pattern; according to a reading pattern of the series of reading patterns, reading a plurality of symbols from each RAID group of the RAID groups; and performing exclusive-OR (XOR) operations on the symbols to convert the symbols into at least one XOR result, for performing data protection.