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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2018
Silicon Motion Inc., Hsinchu, TW;
Po-Wei Wu, Keelung, TW;
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Abstract
A method for performing page availability management of a memory device, the associated memory device and electronic device, and page availability management system are provided. The method may include: obtaining a set of page Error Correction Code (ECC) error tables of a non-volatile (NV) memory; based on a predetermined rule, finding respective local risky pages of at least one portion of blocks within a plurality of blocks according to the set of page ECC error tables, respectively, to generate local risky page counts respectively corresponding to page indexes; finding one or more global risky pages corresponding to one or more page indexes of the multiple page indexes according to the local risky page counts; and writing a global risky page table into the memory device, for controlling the memory device to skip using the one or more global risky pages of each of the plurality of blocks.