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Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2021

Filed:

May. 31, 2020
Applicant:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;

Inventors:

Tsai-Cheng Lin, Hsinchu, TW;

Chun-Kun Lee, Hsinchu County, TW;

Assignee:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7207 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7208 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7209 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory apparatus includes: a plurality of non-volatile (NV) memory elements each including a plurality of physical blocks; a volatile memory for storing a global page address linking table; a transmission interface, for receiving commands from a host; and a processing unit, for obtaining a first host address and first data from a first host command, and a second host address and second data from a second host command, linking the first host address to a first page of a physical block and storing the first data in the first page, and linking the second host address to a second page of the physical block and storing the second data in the second page to build a local page address linking table; wherein a difference value of the first host address and the second host address is greater than a number of pages of the physical block.


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