• Patent Title: Method and apparatus for accessing L2P address without searching group-to-flash mapping table
  • Application No.: US17693420
    Application Date: 2022-03-14
  • Publication No.: US11704238B1
    Publication Date: 2023-07-18
  • Inventor: Yi-Kai Pai
  • Applicant: Silicon Motion, Inc.
  • Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu County
  • Assignee: Silicon Motion, Inc.
  • Current Assignee: Silicon Motion, Inc.
  • Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu County
  • Agent Winston Hsu
  • Main IPC: G06F12/02
  • IPC: G06F12/02
Method and apparatus for accessing L2P address without searching group-to-flash mapping table
Abstract:
A method of caching mapping table for use in a flash memory device having a flash memory controller and a flash memory is provided. The method includes: in response to a host read/write command, checking a G2F mapping table to determine whether a required group of a L2P mapping table has been loaded to a DRAM of the flash memory controller and accordingly obtain a node index indicating which memory node of the DRAM the group is stored in; recording the node index to a first region of a SRAM of the flash memory controller; accessing the DRAM to obtain an L2P address indicating a physical address that is associated with the host read/write command from the group of the L2P mapping table by referencing the node index stored in the first region of the SRAM; and performing a read/write operation on the flash memory according to the L2P address.
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