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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2024
Scaleflux, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Tong Zhang, Albany, NY (US);
Mark Vernon, Park City, UT (US);
Ganesh Venkatakrishnan, Milpitas, CA (US);
Yang Liu, Milpitas, CA (US);
Fei Sun, Irvine, CA (US);
SCALEFLUX, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A multimode solid-state drive (SSD) and associated method. An SSD includes: a plurality of flash memory chips addressable via a physical block address (PBA); and a controller chip configured to map logical block addresses (LBAs) from a host to PBAs, wherein the controller chip is further configured to handle different LBA block sizes according to a process that includes: partitioning a base partition to store one a long code word of size Chaving a single base data block protected with error correction coding (ECC); and partitioning a set of non-base partitions, each partitioned for a plurality of shortened code words, wherein each shortened code word is configured to store a shortened data block protected with ECC, and wherein the plurality of shortened code words are configured to be protected with ECC as a combined long codeword of size C.