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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2014
Sandisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets, Edinburgh, GB;
Matthew Davidson, Los Altos, CA (US);
Gary J. Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel Tuers, Kapaa, HI (US);
Robert Jackson, Milpitas, CA (US);
SanDisk Technologies LLC, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A storage module may include a controller that has hardware path that includes a plurality of hardware modules configured to perform a plurality of processes associated with execution of a host request. The storage module may also include a firmware module having a processor that executes firmware to perform at least some of the plurality of processes performed by the hardware modules. The firmware module performs the processes when the hardware modules are not able to successfully perform them.