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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2013
Sandisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Gary Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Jackson, Milpitas, CA (US);
Yoav Weinberg, Thornhill, CA;
William L. Guthrie, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Girish B. Desai, Cupertino, CA (US);
SanDisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
Buffer memory reservation techniques for use with NAND flash memory include dynamically reserving regions of the buffer memory, responsive to a read/write request. Where the read/write request includes a plurality of data transfer requests, following completion of a data transfer request, the reserved buffer space may be recycled for use in a further data transfer request or for other purposes. During fulfillment of a read request, a buffer region is reserved from a larger buffer pool for a time period significantly smaller than the time required to execute a sense operation associated with the read request. The reserved buffer region may be reused for unrelated processes during execution of the sense operation.