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Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 01, 2020
Applicant:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Zhubei, TW;

Inventor:

Wen-Sheng Lin, Kaohsiung, TW;

Assignee:

SILICON MOTION, INC., Zhubei, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/141 (2013.01); G11C 5/147 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention relates to a method, and an apparatus for accessing to data in response to a power-supply event. The method, performed by a flash controller, includes steps for: repeatedly detecting whether a voltage supplied to the flash controller is lower than a first threshold; and issuing a program command to a flash module for programming data into the flash module and performing a supervision procedure when the voltage is lower than the first threshold. The supervision procedure includes steps for: repeatedly detecting whether the voltage is lower than a second threshold during a time period when issuing the program command to the flash module until transmitting the data to the flash module completely; and cancelling the program command when the voltage is lower than the second threshold.


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