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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2003
Applicants:
Wee-kuan Gan, Hsinchu Hsien, TW;
Chu-cheng Liang, Hsinchu Hsien, TW;
Inventors:
Wee-Kuan Gan, Hsinchu Hsien, TW;
Chu-Cheng Liang, Hsinchu Hsien, TW;
Assignee:
Phison Electronics Corp., Hsinchu Hsien, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of reducing the frequency of erasing steps of a flash memory is described. A linking method under a mother and a child block architecture for building a check area and a logic page of the child block in order to reduce the frequency of erasing steps of the flash memory so that the service life of the flash memory can be extended and also the processing speed can be promoted.