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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2013
Applicant:
Silicon Motion Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Inventors:
Hsiao-Te Chang, Hsinchu County, TW;
Chun-Yi Chen, Chiayi, TW;
Assignee:
Silicon Motion Inc., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1032 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for accessing a flash memory, where a block of the flash memory includes pages whose quantity is (2+M), N and M are positive integers. The method includes: writing a data stream into 1-(2)pages, and backing up data of a portion of the 1-(2)pages into (2+1)-(2+M)pages.