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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2020
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Viacheslav Dubeyko, San Jose, CA (US);
Chao Sun, San Jose, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A device includes a Storage Class Memory (SCM) and a secondary memory with at least one of a greater read or write latency than the SCM. At least a portion of the SCM is provided as an address space of a processor. An SCM smallest writable unit for writing data in the SCM is smaller than a secondary memory smallest writable unit for writing data in the secondary memory. An operation instruction is received from the processor to perform an operation on data stored in the secondary memory. The data is loaded from the secondary memory into the SCM for performance of the operation.