Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Testing storage device power circuitry
-
Application No.: US15369501Application Date: 2016-12-05
-
Publication No.: US10699798B2Publication Date: 2020-06-30
- Inventor: Laura Marie Caulfield , Mark Alan Santaniello , J. Michael Andrewartha , John J. Siegler
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC
- Main IPC: G11C29/50
- IPC: G11C29/50 ; G01R31/3183 ; G11C29/02 ; G01R31/30 ; G11C29/10 ; G11C5/14 ; G11C29/04 ; G11C16/30

Abstract:
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for testing storage device power circuitry. A storage device controller includes an embedded test program. The storage device controller executes the test program in response to receiving a test command. In one aspect, the test program issues a plurality of different command patterns to test shared power circuitry of storage device components (e.g., shared by an array of NAND flash memory devices). The test program identifies a command pattern that causes a greatest total current draw. In another aspect, the test program issues a specified command pattern (possibly repeatedly) to shared power circuitry to determine if the shared power circuitry fails.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170098479A1 TESTING STORAGE DEVICE POWER CIRCUITRY Public/Granted day:2017-04-06
Information query