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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2018
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/18 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 13/1642 (2013.01); G06F 13/1673 (2013.01); G06F 13/18 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7209 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided herein may be a memory controller and a method of operating the memory controller. The memory controller may include: a host interface layer configured to receive a request for a memory device from a host; a flash translation layer configured to generate a descriptor including a flag indicating whether the request is a priority read request; and a flash interface layer configured to suspend requests input prior to the priority read request depending on the flag, store the requests input prior to the priority read request, and perform the priority read request.