Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method of wear leveling for storage class memory using cache filtering
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Application No.: US15230414Application Date: 2016-08-06
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Publication No.: US10229047B2Publication Date: 2019-03-12
- Inventor: Chuen-Shen Bernard Shung
- Applicant: Cory Consulting Group, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Wolley INC.
- Current Assignee: Wolley INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Blairtech Solution LLC
- Main IPC: G06F12/02
- IPC: G06F12/02 ; G06F12/0804 ; G06F12/1009 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F11/10 ; G11C29/52 ; G11C29/04

Abstract:
A method and apparatus of wear leveling control for storage class memory are disclosed. According to the present invention, whether current data to be written to a nonvolatile memory corresponds to a write cache hit is determined. If the current data to be written corresponds to the write cache hit, the current data are written to a write cache as well as to a designated location in the nonvolatile memory different from a destined location in the nonvolatile memory. If the current data to be written corresponds to a write cache miss, the current data are written to the destined location in the nonvolatile memory. If the current data to be written corresponds to the write cache miss and the write cache is not full, the current data is also written to the write cache. In another embodiment, the wear leveling control technique also includes address rotation process to achieve long-term wear leveling as well.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180039573A1 Apparatus and Method of Wear Leveling for Storage Class Memory Public/Granted day:2018-02-08
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