Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for efficiently sorting iteration with small sorting set
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Application No.: US15378044Application Date: 2016-12-14
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Publication No.: US10824554B2Publication Date: 2020-11-03
- Inventor: Ying Yu Tai , Jiangli Zhu
- Applicant: VIA Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: TW New Taipei
- Assignee: VIA Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VIA Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: TW New Taipei
- Agency: JCIPRNET
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G11C16/34 ; G06F12/02

Abstract:
A non-volatile memory (NVM) apparatus and an iteration sorting method thereof are provided. The NVM apparatus performs the iteration sorting method to select one target block from a plurality of blocks of a NVM, and to perform a management operation on the target block. The iteration sorting method includes: selecting a plurality of candidate blocks among the blocks of the NVM to join into a sorting set, sorting all of the candidate blocks in the sorting set according to metadata, picking one candidate block with maximum (or minimum) metadata from the sorting set to serve as the target block, and keeping M candidate blocks in the sorting set and discarding the rest of the candidate blocks from the sorting set.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180165010A1 NON-VOLATILE MEMORY APPARATUS AND ITERATION SORTING METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2018-06-14
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