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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2014
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;
Chien-Cheng Lin, Yilan, TW;
Chia-Chi Liang, Taichung, TW;
Chang-Chieh Huang, Zhubei, TW;
Jie-Hao Lee, Kaohsiung, TW;
SILICON MOTION, INC., Jhubei, Hsinchu County, TW;
Abstract
A data storage device and a flash memory control method with a power recovery design. A microcontroller is configured to allocate a flash memory to provide a first block from the blocks to work as a run-time write block for reception of write data. During a power recovery process due to an unexpected power-off event that interrupted write operations on the first block, the microcontroller is configured to allocate the flash memory to provide a second block from the blocks for complete data recovery of the first block and to replace the first block as the run-time write block.