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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2020
Applicant:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1044 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7205 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for use in management of a flash memory module is provided. The flash memory module has a plurality of blocks, wherein a portion of the blocks belong to a spare pool. The method includes: preserving at least one erased block in the spare pool for a write operation; monitoring an erasing period regarding the at least one erased block; and performing a replacement operation to replace the at least one erased block when the erase time exceeds a threshold.