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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 12, 2019
Applicant:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Inventors:

Edward McGlaughlin, Minneapolis, MN (US);

Yves Tchapda, Manchester, GB;

Stephen Marshall, Oldham, GB;

Samuel Bradshaw, Sacramento, CA (US);

Niels Reimers, Meadow Vista, CA (US);

Assignee:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (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 3/0656 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 13/161 (2013.01); G06F 13/1673 (2013.01); G06F 13/4282 (2013.01); G06F 12/0238 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1024 (2013.01); G06F 2212/202 (2013.01); G06F 2212/205 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7203 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0026 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed, including a host interface circuit configured to control communication between a set of virtual functions (VFs) and a media management system (MMS). The host interface circuit can consolidate commands from the set of VFs, dynamically allocate write buffers (WBs) from a set of available WBs to the set of VFs using the commands, and manage WB access for the set of VFs and provide write data to the MMS using the allocated WBs. For each VF in the set of VFs, the host interface circuit can manage a submission queue (SQ) for a respective VF from the set of VFs, receive a command from the respective VF, including one or more submission queue entries (SQEs), and coordinate the one or more received SQEs with allocated WBs.


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