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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2015
Applicant:
Sandisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Chetan Agrawal, Madhya Pradesh, IN;
Dinesh Agarwal, Bangalore, IN;
Vijay Sivasankaran, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
SanDisk Technologies LLC, Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 3/0628 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 12/0623 (2013.01);
Abstract
Apparatus and method for performing wear leveling are disclosed. An ordered list of references to each of a set of memory blocks is stored. A set of memory blocks in the ordered list is sequentially allocating. The allocated set of memory blocks in the ordered list are erased in the sequence in which they were allocated.