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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 19, 2013
Applicant:

Sandisk Enterprise Ip Llc, Milpitas, CA (US);

Inventors:

Gregg S. Lucas, Tucson, AZ (US);

Kenneth B. Delpapa, Natick, MA (US);

Robert W. Ellis, Phoenix, AZ (US);

Assignee:

SANDISK ENTERPRISE IP LLC, Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/2017 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 11/1441 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01);
Abstract

The various implementations described herein include systems, methods and/or devices used to enable power sequencing and data hardening in a storage device. In one aspect, a method includes, in response to a first signal received by the storage device, performing a soft power fail operation on a first section of the storage device. The soft power fail operation including: (1) signaling a power fail condition to a first plurality of controllers on the storage device, where the first plurality of controllers correspond to the first section of the storage device, (2) transferring data held in volatile memory of the storage device to non-volatile memory of the storage device, and (3) removing power from the first plurality of controllers.


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