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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2023
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Abstract
A method for performing table management of a memory device in predetermined communications architecture with aid of system-region garbage collection (GC) and associated apparatus are provided. The method may include: utilizing the memory controller to perform a system-region GC procedure to manage at least one table regarding internal management of the memory device. The system-region GC procedure may include: reading a set of first table contents from a set of first table pages; and writing the set of first table contents into a set of first system-region-GC-processed table pages of the at least one table block, and writing a first RAID parity of the set of first table contents into a first parity page corresponding to the set of first system-region-GC-processed table pages in the at least one table block, in order to generate a first system-region-GC-processed table RAID protection group, for protecting the set of first system-region-GC-processed table pages.