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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2012
Applicant:
Ching-min Hou, Taichung, TW;
Inventor:
Ching-Min Hou, Taichung, TW;
Assignee:
ITE Tech. Inc., Hsinchu, TW;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/10 (2006.01); G11C 8/12 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/10 (2013.01); G11C 8/12 (2013.01); G06F 12/00 (2013.01); G06F 12/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A solution is provided to flexibly choose a combination of flash memory devices to reduce the overall cost of the flash memory devices or increase the overall utilization of the flash memory devices, while satisfying the capacity requirements for the flash memory devices in a system design, wherein a decoding unit is used for determining which flash memory devices will be accessed and re-mapping incoming serial addressing bits, for accessing one flash memory device, into an outgoing serial addressing bits for accessing another flash memory device.