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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2004
Sun-teck See, San Jose, CA (US);
Tzu-yih Chu, San Jose, CA (US);
Horng-yee Chou, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Charles C. Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sun-Teck See, San Jose, CA (US);
Tzu-Yih Chu, San Jose, CA (US);
Horng-Yee Chou, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Charles C. Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Super Talent Electronics, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A multi media card (MMC) is disclosed. The MMC includes a flash controller and at least one flash memory device. The flash controller increases the throughput of the at least one flash memory device to match the speed of a host bus coupled to the MMC. The flash controller increases the throughput by performing one or more of performing a read-ahead memory read operation, performing a write-ahead memory write operation, increasing the size of a page register of the at least one flash memory device, increasing the width of a memory data bus, performing a dual-channel concurrent memory read operation, performing a dual-channel concurrent memory write operation, performing a write-cache memory write operation, and any combination thereof.