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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2011
Holloway H. Frost, Houston, TX (US);
Rebecca J. Hutsell, Houston, TX (US);
Holloway H. Frost, Houston, TX (US);
Rebecca J. Hutsell, Houston, TX (US);
Texas Memory Systems, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The disclosed embodiments relate to a Flash-based memory module having high-speed serial communication. The Flash-based memory module comprises, among other things, a plurality of I/O modules, each configured to communicate with an external device over one or more external communication links, a plurality of Flash-based memory cards, each comprising a plurality of Flash memory devices, and a plurality of crossbar switching elements, each being connected to a respective one of the Flash-based memory cards and configured to allow each one of the I/O modules to communicate with the respective one of the Flash-based memory cards. Each I/O module is connected to each crossbar switching element by a high-speed serial communication link, and each crossbar switching element is connected to the respective one of the Flash-based memory cards by a plurality of parallel communication links.