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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2015
Applicant:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;
Inventor:
Chang-Kai Cheng, Hsinchu, TW;
Assignee:
SILICON MOTION, INC., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/10 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1008 (2013.01); G06F 2212/152 (2013.01); G06F 2212/2022 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7202 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7207 (2013.01);
Abstract
A data-storage device having a flash memory allocated to provide data-storage space, a valid page count table, logical-to-physical address mapping information, and an invalid block record. The data-storage device further having a controller, allocating the data-storage space to store data issued from a host, and establishing and maintaining the valid page count table, the logical-to-physical address mapping information, and the invalid block record in the FLASH memory to manage the data-storage space. A FLASH memory control method is also provided.