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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2008
Robert Alan Reid, Superior, CO (US);
Robert Alan Reid, Superior, CO (US);
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An invention is provided for memory management in a non-volatile memory which includes a plurality of memory blocks. The invention includes loading a block table from a memory block of the non-volatile memory into system memory, where the block table includes, inter alia, a plurality of entries mapping a physical block address of the non-volatile memory to a logical block address of the non-volatile memory. The block table is updated as data is accessed in the non-volatile memory, and the updated block table is stored into a memory block of the non-volatile memory. Generally, the block table is stored periodically and/or at system shutdown.