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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2005
Applicant:
Yun Yang, Los Altos, CA (US);
Inventor:
Yun Yang, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/12 (2006.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Method and circuit for coupling a disk drive to a host are disclosed. The circuit includes a flash memory interface having interface signal lines in communication with the interface controller and the host, a buffer memory to store data received from the host and from the disk drive, a flash controller to emulate data transfer protocols of the disk drive using the interface signal lines over the flash memory interface, and a memory wrapper in communication with the interface controller and a buffer manager where the memory wrapper controls the buffering memory according to data transfer rates of the host and the disk drive.