Proactive Correction Of Potential Transmission Errors In A Storage Device

Abstract

Instead of incurring interface errors caused by power drops, continuously track all the channels between the controller and the storage device (both in-band and side-band channels). The tracking will include extracting relevant indications and use a prediction model that correlates between the tracked indications to later occurrence of power drop events. In response to the prediction results, the system may perform different rehabilitation operations (countermeasures). The controller will monitor different indications from the storage element and power supply to predict a signal integrity degradation marginality event on the interface. The monitoring and mitigation strategy relies on an open-ended system. The controller does not employ a real-time continuous return channel from the storage device that may signal pass/fail conditions. Given the nature of an open-ended system and tolerance of calibration for the data gathering, processing and inference system, the controller will have to cope also with false positive events.

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