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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2013
Filed:
May. 03, 2010
Applicants:
Po-syuan Chen, Yunlin County, TW;
Chi-hsiang Hung, Taipei, TW;
Inventors:
Po-Syuan Chen, Yunlin County, TW;
Chi-Hsiang Hung, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Silicon Motion Inc., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for accessing a flash memory includes: writing a data stream into at least a page of at least one data block of the flash memory, where each page of the data block includes an identity code; reading at least one identity code of the page; and determining a specific page according to at least the identity code, where the specific page is a last page that the data stream is written to before the flash memory is disconnected from a power source.