Invention Grant
US07971007B2 Downgrade memory apparatus, and method for accessing a downgrade memory
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降级存储器装置和用于访问降级存储器的方法
- Patent Title: Downgrade memory apparatus, and method for accessing a downgrade memory
- Patent Title (中): 降级存储器装置和用于访问降级存储器的方法
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Application No.: US12168955Application Date: 2008-07-08
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Publication No.: US07971007B2Publication Date: 2011-06-28
- Inventor: Wu-Chi Kuo
- Applicant: Wu-Chi Kuo
- 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 method for accessing a downgrade memory and a downgrade memory apparatus are provided. The downgrade memory apparatus comprises at least one management unit and a controller. The management unit comprises a plurality of blocks, each block having a plurality of pages, and each page having a plurality of sectors, the downgrade memory having a plurality of non-accessible sectors. The controller is configured to parse a write command corresponding to a special block, to select at least one accessible sector according to a status information of the special block and to program the write command to the special block, wherein the status information indicates at least one non-accessible sector in the special block. Thereby the method and the apparatus of downgrade memory may as well omit the non-accessible sectors as enhance the usage memory capacity in accordance with the status information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100011173A1 Downgrade Memory Apparatus, and Method for Accessing a Downgrade Memory Public/Granted day:2010-01-14
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