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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2013
Applicant:
Densbits Technologies Ltd., Haifa, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
DENSBITS TECHNOLOGIES LTD., Haifa, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/12 (2006.01); G06F 12/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 12/123 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of managing a non-volatile memory module, the method may include: allocating, by a memory controller, logically erased physical blocks of a non-volatile memory module to a spare block pool; allocating, by the memory controller, physical blocks from the spare block pool to become buffer blocks of a buffer of the non-volatile memory module; and controlling, by the memory controller, a utilization of the buffer blocks of the buffer by applying a page based buffer management scheme.