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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2024
Silicon Motion, Inc., Zhubei, TW;
Cheng-Yu Tsai, Kaohsiung, TW;
SILICON MOTION, INC., Zhubei, TW;
Abstract
The invention introduces a method for configuring a current block to program data, performed by a processing unit, which includes: dividing storage space of a flash module into a static area and a dynamic area; entering a first mode to obtain a first empty SB from the dynamic area and erase the first empty SB to configure the first empty SB as a non-SLC block; and entering a second mode from the first mode to obtain a second empty SB from the static area and erase the second empty SB to configure the second empty SB as an SLC block in response that a background garbage collection (GC) flag indicates that a background GC process has been performed, at least one empty SB is presented in the static area, and a quantity of empty SBs in the dynamic area equals or is less than a predefined quantity.