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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Storart Technology Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Inventors:
Chih-Nan Yen, Hsinchu, TW;
Chien-Cheng Lin, Hsinchu, TW;
Assignee:
Storart Technology Co. Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 (2006.01); G11C 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for replacing the address of some bad bytes (bad columns) of the data area and the spare area to the good address of bytes (good columns) in non-volatile storage system is disclosed. The steps of the method are: waiting for a command from a host; judging if there is still some data to be processed; if no, go back to the previous step; if yes, go to next step; judging if a bad column is used; if no, process data access and go back to the step of judging if there is still some data to be processed; and if yes, process data accessing as original operation and increase the address by one.