WO2009129338A3 - Flash management using sequential techniques - Google Patents

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WO2009129338A3
WO2009129338A3 PCT/US2009/040713 US2009040713W WO2009129338A3 WO 2009129338 A3 WO2009129338 A3 WO 2009129338A3 US 2009040713 W US2009040713 W US 2009040713W WO 2009129338 A3 WO2009129338 A3 WO 2009129338A3
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flash management
flash memory
data
sequential techniques
techniques
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PCT/US2009/040713
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Kevin L. Kilzer
Robert W Ellis
Rudolph J. Sterbenz
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Adtron, Inc.
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Priority claimed from US12/103,273 external-priority patent/US8566505B2/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
    • 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
    • G06F2212/00—Indexing scheme relating to accessing, addressing or allocation within memory systems or architectures
    • G06F2212/72—Details relating to flash memory management
    • G06F2212/7201—Logical to physical mapping or translation of blocks or pages

Abstract

Disclosed are techniques for flash memory management, including receiving data from a host, writing the data to a flash memory device in the order it was received from the host, and providing at least one data structure configured to locate the data written to the flash memory device.
PCT/US2009/040713 2008-04-15 2009-04-15 Flash management using sequential techniques WO2009129338A2 (en)

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US4506008P 2008-04-15 2008-04-15
US12/103,277 US8028123B2 (en) 2008-04-15 2008-04-15 Circular wear leveling
US12/103,273 2008-04-15
US12/103,277 2008-04-15
US61/045,060 2008-04-15
US12/103,273 US8566505B2 (en) 2008-04-15 2008-04-15 Flash management using sequential techniques

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