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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2022
Silicon Storage Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Guangming Lin, Shanghai, CN;
Xiaozhou Qian, Shanghai, CN;
Xiao Yan Pi, Shanghai, CN;
Vipin Tiwari, Dublin, CA (US);
Zhenlin Ding, Shanghai, CN;
SILICON STORAGE TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present embodiments relate to systems and methods for implementing wear leveling in a flash memory device that emulates an EEPROM. The embodiments utilize an index array, which stores an index word for each logical address in the emulated EEPROM. The embodiments comprise a system and method for receiving an erase command and a logical address, the logical address corresponding to a sector of physical words of non-volatile memory cells in an array of non-volatile memory cells, the sector comprising a first physical word, a last physical word, and one or more physical words between the first physical word and the last physical word; when a current word, identified by an index bit, is the last physical word in the sector, erasing the sector; and when the current word is not the last physical word in the sector, changing a next index bit.