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- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for dealing with write errors when writing information data into flash memory devices
- Patent Title (中): 在将信息数据写入闪存设备时处理写入错误的方法和装置
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Application No.: US12819432Application Date: 2010-06-21
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Publication No.: US08352780B2Publication Date: 2013-01-08
- Inventor: Thomas Brune , Michael Drexler , Dieter Haupt
- Applicant: Thomas Brune , Michael Drexler , Dieter Haupt
- Applicant Address: FR Issy les Moulineaux
- Assignee: Thomson Licensing
- Current Assignee: Thomson Licensing
- Current Assignee Address: FR Issy les Moulineaux
- Agency: Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.
- Priority: EP09305611 20090629
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00

Abstract:
For writing, flash memory devices are physically accessed in a page-oriented mode, but such devices are not error-free in operation. According to the invention, when writing information data in a bus write cycle in a sequential manner into flash memory devices assigned to a common data bus, at least one of said flash memory devices is not fed for storage with a current section of said information data. In case an error is occurring while writing a current information data section into a page of a current one of said flash memory devices, said current information data section is written into a non-flash memory. During the following bus write cycle, while the flash memory device containing that defective page is normally idle, that idle time period is used for copying the corresponding stored section of said information data from said non-flash memory to a non-defect page of that flash memory device.
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