Auto Resume of Irregular Erase Stoppage of a Memory Sector

摘要

Disclosed herein are system, method and/or computer program product embodiments for automatically resuming an irregular erasure stoppage in a sector of a memory system. An embodiment includes storing information related to any completed sub-stage of a multi stage erasure process and the corresponding memory sector address in a dedicated memory. After an irregular erasure stoppage occurs, an embodiment reads the information from the dedicated memory and resumes the erasure process of the memory sector from the last sub-stage completed.

主权项

1. A method for resuming an irregular erasure stoppage of a memory sector erasure process for a memory device, wherein the memory device comprises a plurality of sectors, and wherein the memory sector erasure process comprises a plurality of sub-stages, the method comprising:
storing information indicating a last sub-stage of the memory sector erasure process that completed before the irregular erasure stoppage; and if the last sub-stage of the erasure process is not a final sub-stage of the erasure process for the memory sector, resuming the erasure process of that memory sector.