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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2021
Applicant:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Zhubei, TW;
Inventor:
Po-Wei Wu, New Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
SILICON MOTION, INC., Zhubei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11C 16/20 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 13/1668 (2013.01); G11C 16/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention introduces a method for configuring a reliable command, performed by a flash controller, including: issuing a read ID command to a flash module; and parsing an opcode of a reliable command from reserved bytes in reply data for the read ID command, where the reliable command is used to direct the flash module for access to data in a single level cell (SLC) mode.