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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2017
Applicant:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, TW;
Inventors:
Cheng-Yi Hsieh, Puxin Township, TW;
Ming-Yen Lin, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Jhubei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/28 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/28 (2013.01); G11C 16/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A data storage device including a flash memory and a controller. The flash memory includes a plurality of pages and a plurality of word lines, wherein each of the word lines controls at least two of the pages. The controller reads a first page of the pages in response to a read command, wherein the first page is controlled by a first word line of the word lines, and the controller further writes dummy data into the pages controlled by the first word line other than the first page when a predetermined condition is satisfied, wherein the predetermined condition includes that the first word line is not close.