SG130988A1 - Portable data storage device incorporating multiple flash memory units - Google Patents

Portable data storage device incorporating multiple flash memory units

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Publication number
SG130988A1
SG130988A1 SG200600513-6A SG2006005136A SG130988A1 SG 130988 A1 SG130988 A1 SG 130988A1 SG 2006005136 A SG2006005136 A SG 2006005136A SG 130988 A1 SG130988 A1 SG 130988A1
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Singapore
Prior art keywords
storage device
data storage
flash memory
memory units
portable data
Prior art date
Application number
SG200600513-6A
Other languages
English (en)
Inventor
Cheung Tsz Kin Clifford
Poo Teng Pin
C O Tan Henry
Original Assignee
Trek 2000 Int Ltd
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Publication date
Priority claimed from PCT/SG2005/000328 external-priority patent/WO2007037757A1/en
Application filed by Trek 2000 Int Ltd filed Critical Trek 2000 Int Ltd
Priority to SG200600513-6A priority Critical patent/SG130988A1/en
Priority to BRPI0621722A priority patent/BRPI0621722A2/pt
Priority to EP06824656A priority patent/EP1977307A1/en
Priority to PCT/SG2006/000388 priority patent/WO2007084079A1/en
Priority to RU2008132970/09A priority patent/RU2008132970A/ru
Priority to CN2006800514352A priority patent/CN101384984B/zh
Priority to JP2008551232A priority patent/JP2009524145A/ja
Priority to US12/161,438 priority patent/US7962685B2/en
Priority to KR1020087019155A priority patent/KR101017358B1/ko
Publication of SG130988A1 publication Critical patent/SG130988A1/en

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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F12/00—Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures
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    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11C—STATIC STORES
    • G11C11/00—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor
    • G11C11/56—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor using storage elements with more than two stable states represented by steps, e.g. of voltage, current, phase, frequency
    • G11C11/5621—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor using storage elements with more than two stable states represented by steps, e.g. of voltage, current, phase, frequency using charge storage in a floating gate
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F12/00—Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures
    • G06F12/02—Addressing or allocation; Relocation
    • G06F12/0223—User address space allocation, e.g. contiguous or non contiguous base addressing
    • G06F12/023—Free address space management
    • G06F12/0238—Memory management in non-volatile memory, e.g. resistive RAM or ferroelectric memory
    • G06F12/0246—Memory management in non-volatile memory, e.g. resistive RAM or ferroelectric memory in block erasable memory, e.g. flash memory
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F13/00—Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11C—STATIC STORES
    • G11C11/00—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor
    • G11C11/56—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor using storage elements with more than two stable states represented by steps, e.g. of voltage, current, phase, frequency
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11C—STATIC STORES
    • G11C16/00—Erasable programmable read-only memories
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F3/00—Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
    • G06F3/06—Digital input from, or digital output to, record carriers, e.g. RAID, emulated record carriers or networked record carriers
    • G06F3/0601—Interfaces specially adapted for storage systems
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F3/00—Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
    • G06F3/06—Digital input from, or digital output to, record carriers, e.g. RAID, emulated record carriers or networked record carriers
    • G06F3/0601—Interfaces specially adapted for storage systems
    • G06F3/0628—Interfaces specially adapted for storage systems making use of a particular technique
    • G06F3/0662—Virtualisation aspects
    • G06F3/0664—Virtualisation aspects at device level, e.g. emulation of a storage device or system
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11C—STATIC STORES
    • G11C16/00—Erasable programmable read-only memories
    • G11C16/02—Erasable programmable read-only memories electrically programmable
    • G11C16/06—Auxiliary circuits, e.g. for writing into memory
    • G11C16/10—Programming or data input circuits
    • G11C16/102—External programming circuits, e.g. EPROM programmers; In-circuit programming or reprogramming; EPROM emulators
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11C—STATIC STORES
    • G11C2211/00—Indexing scheme relating to digital stores characterized by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor
    • G11C2211/56—Indexing scheme relating to G11C11/56 and sub-groups for features not covered by these groups
    • G11C2211/564—Miscellaneous aspects
    • G11C2211/5641—Multilevel memory having cells with different number of storage levels

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Computer Hardware Design (AREA)
  • Techniques For Improving Reliability Of Storages (AREA)
  • Read Only Memory (AREA)
SG200600513-6A 2005-09-29 2006-01-18 Portable data storage device incorporating multiple flash memory units SG130988A1 (en)

Priority Applications (9)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
SG200600513-6A SG130988A1 (en) 2005-09-29 2006-01-18 Portable data storage device incorporating multiple flash memory units
BRPI0621722A BRPI0621722A2 (pt) 2006-01-18 2006-12-13 " dispositivo de armazenamento de dados portátil incorporando unidades de memória flash múltiplas "
EP06824656A EP1977307A1 (en) 2006-01-18 2006-12-13 Portable data storage device incorporating multiple flash memory units
PCT/SG2006/000388 WO2007084079A1 (en) 2006-01-18 2006-12-13 Portable data storage device incorporating multiple flash memory units
RU2008132970/09A RU2008132970A (ru) 2006-01-18 2006-12-13 Портативное устройство хранения данных, содержащее множество модулей флэш-памяти
CN2006800514352A CN101384984B (zh) 2006-01-18 2006-12-13 整合有多个闪存单元的便携式数据存储装置
JP2008551232A JP2009524145A (ja) 2006-01-18 2006-12-13 複数のフラッシュメモリを内蔵したポータブルデータストレージデバイス
US12/161,438 US7962685B2 (en) 2006-01-18 2006-12-13 Portable data storage device incorporating multiple flash memory units
KR1020087019155A KR101017358B1 (ko) 2006-01-18 2006-12-13 복수의 플래시 메모리 유닛을 포함하는 휴대용 데이터 저장장치

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
PCT/SG2005/000328 WO2007037757A1 (en) 2005-09-29 2005-09-29 Portable data storage using slc and mlc flash memory
SG200600513-6A SG130988A1 (en) 2005-09-29 2006-01-18 Portable data storage device incorporating multiple flash memory units

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US (1) US7962685B2 (ko)
EP (1) EP1977307A1 (ko)
JP (1) JP2009524145A (ko)
KR (1) KR101017358B1 (ko)
CN (1) CN101384984B (ko)
BR (1) BRPI0621722A2 (ko)
RU (1) RU2008132970A (ko)
SG (1) SG130988A1 (ko)
WO (1) WO2007084079A1 (ko)

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JP2009524145A (ja) 2009-06-25
WO2007084079A1 (en) 2007-07-26
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