Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Storage device configured to perform an alignment operation and storage system including the same
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Application No.: US16543093Application Date: 2019-08-16
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Publication No.: US11341043B2Publication Date: 2022-05-24
- Inventor: Byoung-Geun Kim , In-Hwan Doh , Joo-Young Hwang , Seung-Uk Shin , Min-Seok Ko , Jae-Yoon Choi
- 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: F. Chau & Associates, LLC
- Priority: KR10-2018-0141947 20181116
- Main IPC: G06F12/02
- IPC: G06F12/02 ; G06F9/38 ; G06F12/10

Abstract:
A storage device includes a non-volatile memory including a plurality of memory blocks. The storage device performs an alignment operation in response to receipt of an align command. The alignment operation converts a received logical address of a logical segment into a physical address and allocates the physical address to a physical block address corresponding to a free block. The storage device is further configured to performs a garbage collection in units of the physical block address that indicates one memory block.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200159656A1 STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2020-05-21
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