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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
May. 02, 1996
George B Tuma, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Wade B Tuma, Reno, NV (US);
Disk Emulation Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An address generator for a solid state disk drive device includes a hardware multiplier logic circuit dedicated to computation of the address by multiplying a block size by a logical block number, to obtain the start address for a memory array read or write operation. The dedicated multiplier circuit advantageously provides very quick computation of these relatively large numbers, which typically involves a 32 bit by 16 bit multiplication. The multiplier includes a shift register initially holding the logical block number which is shifted a particular number of times, the number of shift pulses representing a value of the block length. The output of the shift register is the desired address.