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US 9,959,232 B2Granted
Methods for executing data access commands and flash memory devices using the same
AssigneeSilicon Motion, Inc.
InventorYu-Chuan Chang
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InventorYu-Chuan Chang
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An embodiment of a method for executing data access commands, performed by a control unit, is disclosed to include at least the following steps. A series of interface-driving instructions is read from a RAM (Random Access Memory) after detecting that an indication for altering instruction source has been written into a register. A storage-unit access interface is operated according to the interface-driving instructions, so as to complete data access to a storage unit.
A method for executing data access commands, performed by a control unit, comprising:
A flash memory device, comprising:
A method for executing data access commands, performed by a firmware when being executed by a MCU (Micro-Control Unit), comprising:
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Using universal interface adapter: for adaptation of a particular data processing system to different peripheral devices
Input/output [I/O] data interface arrangements, e.g. I/O data control circuits, I/O data buffers: for memories with random access ports…
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This Application claims priority of Taiwan Patent Application No. 102145803, filed on Dec. 12, 2013, the entirety of which is incorporated by reference herein.
Technical Field
The present invention relates to flash memory devices, and in particular to methods for executing data access commands and flash memory devices using the same.
The present invention can be fully understood by reading the subsequent detailed description and examples with references made to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is the system architecture of a flash memory according to an embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 2 shows a schematic diagram depicting a storage unit of a flash memory according to an embodiment of the invention;
The following description is of the best-contemplated mode of carrying out the invention. This description is made for the purpose of illustrating the general principles of the invention and should not be taken in a limiting sense. The scope of the invention is best determined by reference to the appended claims.
The present invention will be described with respect to particular embodiments and with reference to certain drawings, but the invention is not limited thereto and is only limited by the claims. It will be further understood that the terms “comprises,” “comprising,” “includes” and/or “including,” when used herein, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.
Use of ordinal terms such as “first”, “second”, “third”, etc., in the claims to modify a claim element does not by itself connote any priority, precedence, or order of one claim element over another or the temporal order in which acts of a method are performed, but are used merely as labels to distinguish one claim element having a certain name from another element having the same name (but for use of the ordinal term) to distinguish the claim elements.