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- Patent Title: Power management integrated circuit chips, solid-state drives including the same, and solid-state drive power-mode control methods
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Application No.: US16562962Application Date: 2019-09-06
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Publication No.: US11320993B2Publication Date: 2022-05-03
- Inventor: Byung Yun Cho , Su Il Jin , Young Keun Oh , Kwan Bin Yim
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-si
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: KR10-2018-0170076 20181227
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G06F1/3234

Abstract:
A solid-state drive (SSD) power-mode control method that includes storing, in an active register, active mode control data used for switching the SSD from a low power mode to an active mode, storing, in a standby register, low power mode control data used for switching the SSD from the active mode to the low power mode, and controlling power supplied to the SSD in accordance with the low power mode control data or the active mode control data in response to the SSD switching (i) from the active mode to the low power mode or (ii) from the low power mode to the active mode.
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