Apparatus and method for providing atomicity with respect to...

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2007-05-02

2011-11-08

Rutz, Jared (Department: 2187)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Control technique

C711S103000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08055859

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for providing atomicity with respect to a request of a write operation for successive sectors in a flash memory is provided. The apparatus includes a data write module writing data in a main sector of a page and allocating status bits indicating a status of the data write to a spare sector of the page, a write progress managing module overwriting a commit mark in the spare sector allocated with the status bits according to a progress status of the data write, and a validity determining module determining validity of the sectors on the basis of the overwritten commit mark and providing information of the successive sectors.

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