Method and system for managing multi-plane memory devices
AssigneeSigmatel, Inc.
InventorsRichard Sanders, Josef Zeevi
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Abstract
A computational system comprising a controller and a multi-plane solid state memory device accessible to the controller is disclosed. The controller is configured to provide access to a virtual block having a virtual block address that represents a first block from a first plane of the multi-plane solid state memory device and represents a second block from a second plane of the multi-plane solid state memory device.
Claims22
A computational system comprising:
- a controller;
- and
- a multi-plane solid state memory device accessible to the controller;
- wherein the controller is configured to provide access to a virtual block having a virtual block address that represents a first block from a first plane of the multi-plane solid state memory device and that represents a second block from a second plane of the multi-plane solid state memory device.
A method of controlling a multi-plane solid state memory device, the method comprising:
- accessing a first virtual page representing a first page of a first plane located at a particular block address;
- and
- accessing a second virtual page sequentially next to the first virtual page, the second virtual page representing a second page of a second plane located at the particular block address.
A method of controlling a multi-plane solid state memory device, the method comprising:
- receiving a command to erase a virtual block, the virtual block representing a first block of a first plane and a second block of a second plane;
- erasing the first block of the first plane;
- and
- erasing the second block of the second plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.