Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for bad block management in flash memory
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Application No.: US17368811Application Date: 2021-07-06
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Publication No.: US11599287B2Publication Date: 2023-03-07
- Inventor: Hua Zeng , Mingrui Li , Kui Rong
- Applicant: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
- Applicant Address: TW HsinChu
- Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
- Current Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: TW HsinChu
- Agent Winston Hsu
- Priority: CN202110191743.1 20210219
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06

Abstract:
A method of managing blocks in a flash memory includes: detecting states of blocks of a reserved area in the flash memory and building a bad block management table accordingly; recording mappings between bad blocks of an user area in the flash memory and good blocks of the reserved area into the bad block management table; when the bad block management table indicates there is no good block remaining in the reserved area that can be mapped to, selecting one of bad blocks of the reserved area or the user area and obtaining a recollected block after erasing the selected bad block; recording a mapping between the recollected block and a bad block in the user area into the bad block management table; and based on the bad block management table, programming data into the recollected block.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220269409A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BAD BLOCK MANAGEMENT IN FLASH MEMORY Public/Granted day:2022-08-25
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