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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2007
Scheduling methods of phased garbage collection and housekeeping operations in a flash memory system
Applicant:
Shai Traister, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Shai Traister, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
SanDisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An embodiment of a non-volatile memory storage system comprises a memory controller, and a flash memory module. The memory controller manages the storage operations of the flash memory module. The memory controller is configured to assign a priority level to one or more types of house keeping operations that may be higher than a priority level of one or more types of commands received by a host coupled to the storage system, and to service all operations required of the flash memory module according to priority.