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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2024
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Kuan-Chieh Peng, Taoyuan, TW;
Tzu-Yi Yang, Hsinchu County, TW;
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for controlling a flash memory module. The flash memory module includes a plurality of dies, each die includes a plurality of blocks, each block includes a plurality of pages, and the method includes the steps of: selecting a super block, wherein the super block includes a plurality of first blocks respectively located in the plurality of dies; for each first block in the super block, determining whether the first block is a full block or a blank block; and if the first block is not the full block or the blank block, writing dummy data to the first block so that the first block becomes the full block; and erasing the plurality of first blocks in the super block, so that the plurality of first blocks become a plurality of blank blocks.