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Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2024

Filed:

Jan. 09, 2023
Applicant:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;

Inventors:

Jie-Hao Lee, Hsinchu County, TW;

Chien-Cheng Lin, Yilan County, TW;

Chang-Chieh Huang, Hsinchu County, TW;

Assignee:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0292 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for performing data access management of a memory device in a predetermined communications architecture with aid of unbalanced table update and associated apparatus are provided. The method may include: utilizing a memory controller to receive a plurality of host commands from a host device through a transmission interface circuit of the memory controller, receive a set of first data and a set of second data with first and second active blocks according to first and second commands among the host commands, respectively, and update first and second temporary physical-to-logical (P2L) address mapping tables; and in response to a table region of any temporary P2L address mapping table being full, updating a first P2L address mapping table according to the first temporary P2L address mapping table and selectively updating a second P2L address mapping table according to the second temporary P2L address mapping table, for performing subsequent processing.


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