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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2022
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Tzu-Yi Yang, Hsinchu County, TW;
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Abstract
A method of managing operation commands for a flash memory includes: providing a first command queue for receiving and storing a plurality of normal operation commands; providing at least one word line read (IWLR) command queue for receiving and storing a plurality of IWLR operation commands; issuing a lock state command between each two consecutive IWLR operation commands to the at least one second command queue; determining a selected command queue from the first command queue and the at least one IWLR command queues according to the lock state command; and delivering an operation command from the selected command queue to the flash memory.