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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2019
Silicon Motion Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Tsung-Chieh Yang, Hsinchu, TW;
Wen-Long Wang, Hsinchu, TW;
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Abstract
A method for performing access management of a memory device and associated apparatus (e.g. the memory device and controller thereof such as a memory controller within the memory device, an associated host device and an associated electronic device) are provided. The method may include: when the host device sends a host command to the memory device, utilizing the memory controller to estimate a completion time of the host command, to generate completion time information corresponding to the completion time; and utilizing the memory controller to send the completion time information to the host device, to allow the host device to perform polling after the completion time to obtain execution result of the host command.