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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2024
Applicant:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Inventor:
Wen-Sheng Lin, Kaohsiung, TW;
Assignee:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01);
Abstract
A control method of a memory device includes: updating a wear leveling related data temporarily stored in a buffer memory; obtaining multiple parameters; determining a write frequency according to the multiple parameters; and copying the wear leveling related data from the buffer memory to a flash memory module included in the memory device according to the write frequency.