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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1999
John W. Williams, Longmont, CO (US);
Michael James, Longmont, CO (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A mass data storage device ( ) and method for operating it are disclosed. The mass data storage device has a rotating disk memory ( ) which has a number of sectors for containing data. A FIFO memory ( ) has three memory sections ( ), each for containing an entire sector of data associated with respective sectors of the rotating disk memory. An ECC unit ( ) has random access to any data contained in the FIFO memory ( ). The ECC unit ( ) is operated to perform error correction on data while the data is contained in the FIFO memory ( ). A FIFO memory controller ( ) controls locations at which data is written into and read from the FIFO memory ( ), and locations at which data correction is performed by the ECC unit ( ), so that as data is written into a first portion of the memory containing a sector currently being written, the ECC unit concurrently accesses a second portion of the memory containing a sector previously written to correct data therein, and data that has already been corrected by the ECC unit in a third portion of the memory is concurrently being read from the memory.