Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Block management method of a non-volatile memory
- Patent Title (中): 非易失性存储器的块管理方法
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Application No.: US12702254Application Date: 2010-02-08
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Publication No.: US08356136B2Publication Date: 2013-01-15
- Inventor: Yuan-Hao Chang , Tei-Wei Kuo
- Applicant: Yuan-Hao Chang , Tei-Wei Kuo
- Applicant Address: TW Taipei
- Assignee: National Taiwan University
- Current Assignee: National Taiwan University
- Current Assignee Address: TW Taipei
- Agency: Jianq Chyun IP Office
- Priority: TW98144803A 20091224
- Main IPC: G06F12/02
- IPC: G06F12/02 ; G06F12/10

Abstract:
A block management method applicable to a non-volatile memory storage system is provided. The non-volatile memory storage system includes a plurality of chips. Each chip includes a plurality of physical blocks. The physical blocks form a plurality of physical block sets. Each logical block in a logical space corresponds to at most two physical block sets. In the block management method, when a logical block corresponds to two physical block sets filled with data and more data is to be written, a free physical block set is allocated for storing the data. Then, one of the two physical block sets corresponding to the logical block is selected according to a predetermined criterion. The valid data in the selected physical block set is copied into the free physical block set. Next, the selected physical block set is erased and collected to the pool of free physical block sets.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110161563A1 BLOCK MANAGEMENT METHOD OF A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY Public/Granted day:2011-06-30
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