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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2004
Applicant:
Stephen Henry Kolokowsky, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventor:
Stephen Henry Kolokowsky, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cypress Semiconductor Corp., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C016/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A controller continuously or periodically interrogates the FAT table to determine which blocks are not storing data relative to any files stored in the memory at that time. If a block is located that is not allocated to a file, this block is erased and marked as being ready to receive data. In this way, a large file can be stored in the memory without having to wait for an erase operation to take place while the file is being written to the memory.