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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
May. 27, 2009
Applicants:
Richard Chen, Milpitas, CA (US);
Rex Hsueh, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ping Hou, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Spansion LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A device, system and method in which data in a write cache, that must at some point be written to non-volatile memory, is written to non-volatile memory after expiration of a threshold time period during which no new host commands are received. If either the last dirty entry is written back or a host command is received during the write-back process, the time threshold time period and auto-flush process is restarted.