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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2014
Applicant:
Sandisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventor:
Paul A. Lassa, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
SanDisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G06F 3/0614 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0649 (2013.01); G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a storage device such as a solid state disk (SSD), a central controller communicates with a plurality of multi-chip memory packages. Each multi-chip memory package comprises a plurality of memory dies and a local processor, wherein the plurality of memory dies includes different memory tiers. The central controller may handle management of the virtual address space while the local processor in each MCP manages the storage of data within memory tiers in the memory dies of its respective MCP.