Control apparatus and control method with multiple flash memory card channels
AssigneeNorel Systems Limited
InventorsMiao Chen, Yuanlong Wang
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AssigneeNorel Systems Limited
InventorsMiao Chen, Yuanlong Wang
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A control apparatus with multiple flash memory card channels includes a host side port unit, an instruction data processing unit, and flash memory card port units. The host side port unit exchanges a host side instruction and host side read/write data with a high-speed serial communication protocol host side. The flash memory card port units respectively exchange flash memory card instructions and flash memory card read/write data with a plurality of flash memory cards. An instruction from the high-speed serial communication protocol host side is divided into multiple sub-instructions to be respectively transmitted to the flash memory card port units and exchange of instruction and data with a plurality of flash memory cards is carried out in a coincident period of time so as to achieve the purposes of expanding access capacity and increasing access speed, reducing the operation cost of products, and enhancing flexibility of use of flash memory cards.
A control apparatus with multiple flash memory card channels, comprising a host side port unit (5000), an instruction data processing unit (8000) and a plurality of flash memory card port units (3000) independent of each other, characterized in that in a writing operation of the high-speed serial communication protocol host side (1), the instruction data processing unit (8000) receives, via the host side port unit (5000), a host side instruction (1001) and host side write data (1003) from the high-speed serial communication protocol host side (1) and the instruction data processing unit (8000) divides the host side instruction (1001) and the host side write data (1003) into multiple flash memory card instructions (1006) and multiple flash memory card write data (1008) respectively, which are transmitted through the plurality of flash memory card port units (3000) to a plurality of flash memory cards (4000);
A control method of a control apparatus with multiple flash memory card channels, characterized in that in a writing operation of a high-speed serial communication protocol host side (1), a host side instruction (1001) and host side write data (1003) are received from the high-speed serial communication protocol host side (1), the host side instruction (1001) and the host side write data (1003) being respectively divided into multiple flash memory card instructions (1006) and multiple flash memory card write data (1008), the multiple flash memory card instructions (1006) and multiple flash memory card write data (1008) so divided being transmitted to a plurality of flash memory cards (4000), and in a reading operation of the high-speed serial communication protocol host side (1), a host side instruction (1001) is received from the high-speed serial communication protocol host side (1), the host side instruction (1001) being first divided into multiple flash memory card instructions (1006), the multiple flash memory card instructions (1006) so divided being transmitted to a plurality of flash memory cards (4000), and then flash memory card read data (1010) are received from the plurality of flash memory cards (4000), the multiple flash memory card read data (1010) being first combined to form host side read data (1005), the host side read data (1005) so combined being then transmitted to the high-speed serial communication protocol host side (1).
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