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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2008
Ki-yong Lee, Yongin-si, KR;
Hyo-jun Kim, Yongin-si, KR;
Hee-seon Park, Seoul, KR;
Kyoung-gu Woo, Seoul, KR;
Ki-Yong Lee, Yongin-si, KR;
Hyo-Jun Kim, Yongin-si, KR;
Hee-Seon Park, Seoul, KR;
Kyoung-Gu Woo, Seoul, KR;
SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus usable with a flash memory as storage and a method of operating the same are provided, which can provide an optimized architecture to a flash memory through combination of a flash transition layer (FTL) with a database. The apparatus includes a flash memory, a device driver to manage a mapping table between logical addresses and physical addresses in accordance with a data operation in the flash memory, and a control unit to perform data recovery of the flash memory by requesting the mapping table through an interface provided by the device driver.