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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
May. 29, 2023
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Tsu-Han Lu, Hsinchu, TW;
Hsiao-Chang Yen, Hsinchu County, TW;
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Abstract
A method of a flash memory device to be used in a storage device and coupled to a flash memory controller of the storage device through a specific communication interface, the flash memory device comprising an input/output (I/O) control circuit, a command register, an address register, a memory cell array at least having a first plane and a second plane which is different from the first plane, at least one address decoder, and a control circuit having a specific buffer, and the method comprises: buffering command information of a command signal, sent from the flash memory controller and transmitted through the I/O control circuit, into the command register; buffering address information of the command signal, sent from the flash memory controller and transmitted through the I/O control circuit, into the address register; and controlling the specific buffer storing a transmission history information of the specific communication interface.