Apparatus using flash memory as storage and method of...

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Specific memory composition

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C711S154000, C711S203000, C711S206000

Reexamination Certificate

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07991946

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus usable with a flash memory as storage and a method of operating the same are provided, which can provide an optimized architecture to a flash memory through combination of a flash transition layer (FTL) with a database. The apparatus includes a flash memory, a device driver to manage a mapping table between logical addresses and physical addresses in accordance with a data operation in the flash memory, and a control unit to perform data recovery of the flash memory by requesting the mapping table through an interface provided by the device driver.

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