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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:
Sep. 20, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 02, 2020
Applicant:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Zhubei, TW;

Inventor:

Che-Wei Hsu, Taichung, TW;

Assignee:

SILICON MOTION, INC., Zhubei, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 12/0882 (2016.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 7/544 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 7/5443 (2013.01); G06F 11/1004 (2013.01); G06F 12/0882 (2013.01); G06F 13/1673 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7207 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention introduces an apparatus for handling flash physical-resource sets, at least including a random access memory (RAM), a processing unit and an address conversion circuit. The RAM includes multiple segments of temporary space and each segment thereof stores variables associated with a specific flash physical-resource set. The processing unit accesses user data of a flash physical-resource set when executing program code of a Flash Translation Layer (FTL). The address conversion circuit receives a memory address issued from the FTL, converts the memory address into a relative address of one segment of temporary space associated with the flash physical-resource set and outputs the relative address to the RAM for accessing a variable of the associated segment of temporary space.


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