发明名称 MEMORY MODULE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING WEAR-LEVELING OF MEMORY MODULE
摘要 The invention comprises a memory module capable of wear-leveling. In one embodiment, the memory module comprises a flash memory and a controller. The flash memory comprises a plurality of management units, wherein each of the management units comprises a plurality of blocks. The controller receives new data with a logical address managed by a first management unit selected from the management units, pops a first spare block from a spare area of the first management unit, determines whether an erase count of the first spare block is greater than a first threshold value, searches a second management unit selected from the management units for a replacing block with an erase count lower than a second threshold value when the erase count of the first spare block is greater than the first threshold value, and directs the first management unit and the second management unit to exchange the first spare block with the replacing block.
申请公布号 US2009287875(A1) 申请公布日期 2009.11.19
申请号 US20080121108 申请日期 2008.05.15
申请人 SILICON MOTION, INC. 发明人 LIN CHIEN-CHENG
分类号 G06F12/02 主分类号 G06F12/02
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