Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Memory apparatus, and method of averagely using blocks of a flash memory
- Patent Title (中): 存储装置和平均使用闪存块的方法
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Application No.: US11972658Application Date: 2008-01-11
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Publication No.: US07908423B2Publication Date: 2011-03-15
- Inventor: Hung-Jung Hsu , Hsiao-Te Chang
- Applicant: Hung-Jung Hsu , Hsiao-Te Chang
- Applicant Address: TW Jhubei
- Assignee: Silicon Motion, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Silicon Motion, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Jhubei
- Agency: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00

Abstract:
A flash memory controller for averagely using blocks of a flash memory and the method thereof are provided. The flash memory controller is configured to process wear-leveling by allocating frequently updated data in less-erased blocks, and, allocating less-updated data in frequently erased blocks to achieve dynamic uniformity of times of erasion of blocks.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090119448A1 Memory Apparatus, and Method of Averagely Using Blocks of a Flash Memory Public/Granted day:2009-05-07
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