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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2008
Applicants:
Douglas A. Prins, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Aaron K. Olbrich, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Inventors:
Douglas A. Prins, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Aaron K. Olbrich, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sandisk Enterprise IP LLC, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A storage controller containing multiple processors. The processors are divided into groups, each of which handles a different stage of a pipelined process of performing host reads and writes. In one embodiment, the storage controller operates with a flash memory module, and includes multiple parallel pipelines that allow plural host commands to be handled simultaneously.