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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2014
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Lau Nguyen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Perry Neos, Los Altos, CA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
In first and second memories, respectively, data cannot and can be overwritten on prewritten locations without first erasing the prewritten locations. A selection module selects memory blocks of first memory, which are partially written with first data, in response to receiving a write command to write second data to the memory blocks. A control module, prior to erasing the first data from the memory blocks, writes the first data in a portion of second memory instead of writing the first data in first memory. A location description module generates a description table indicating whether data in memory locations in the portion of second memory are valid or invalid. A rate of adding data to the portion becomes equal to a rate at which data in memory locations in the portion becomes invalid so that the first data is written in the portion without first merging the first data.