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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:
Aug. 09, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 13, 2019
Applicant:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;

Inventors:

Jian-Dong Du, Taoyuan, TW;

Chia-Jung Hsiao, New Taipei, TW;

Pi-Ju Tsai, New Taipei, TW;

Assignee:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/0882 (2016.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G11C 7/22 (2006.01); G11C 11/4074 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 11/076 (2013.01); G06F 12/0882 (2013.01); G06F 13/1689 (2013.01); G11C 7/222 (2013.01); G11C 11/4074 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7209 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides a flash memory controller, wherein the flash memory controller is arranged to access a flash memory module, and the flash memory controller includes a ROM, a microprocessor and a time-management circuit. The ROM stores a program code, the microprocessor is configured to execute the program code to control the access of the flash memory module, and the time-management circuit is configured to generate current time information. In the operations of the flash memory controller, when the microprocessor writes data into last pages of a specific block of the flash memory module, the microprocessor writes the time information generated by the time-management circuit into one of the last pages of the specific block.


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