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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
May. 31, 2024
Silicon Motion Inc., Zhubei, TW;
Chun-Cheng Lee, Zhubei, TW;
SILICON MOTION INC., Hsinchu County, TW;
Abstract
A method for monitoring link signal quality of a solid-state storage device is provided. The method includes the following steps: utilizing a PCIe media access control (MAC) layer to trigger an error notification signal in response to an error occurring on data transmission on a PCIe bus between a host and the solid-state storage device; utilizing a link quality monitoring circuit to transmit a first or second error count signal to an error counter circuit based on a transmission direction of the data transmission in response to the error notification signal; utilizing the error counter circuit to accumulate a first or second error count value based on the first or second error count signal; and utilizing the PCIe MAC layer to report the first or second error count value to the host through the PCIe bus in response to a configuration read packet from the host.