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Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025

Filed:

Jan. 24, 2024
Applicant:

Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;

Inventor:

Tzu-Yi Yang, 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 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7203 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides a method for accessing a flash memory module, wherein the method includes the steps of: configuring the flash memory module to have a super block, wherein the super block comprises a plurality of blocks respectively located in a plurality of dies; encoding M data respectively to sequentially generate M temporary parities, wherein M is a positive integer greater than two; storing the M temporary parities into N areas of a buffer sequentially, wherein N is less than M, each of the N areas is only allowed to store one temporary parity, and a first part of the N areas is always used to store a portion temporary parities of the M temporary parities and their subsequent updated temporary parities; and generating M parities according to the M temporary parities, respectively, and writing the M parities into the super block.


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