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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2013
Applicant:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 11/073 (2013.01); G06F 11/079 (2013.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 12/1441 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1052 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7202 (2013.01);
Abstract
A data storage device using a FLASH memory with replay-protected blocks. The storage space of the FLASH memory is divided into blocks and each block is further divided into pages. A controller is provided in the data storage device to couple to the FLASH memory. The controller manages at least one replay-protected memory block of the FLASH memory. The controller programs two pages into the at least one replay-protected memory block and each page is programmed with a write count of the at least one replay-protected memory block.