Cluster auto-alignment for storing addressable data packets...

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Address formation – Slip control – misaligning – boundary alignment

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ABSTRACT:
Alignment of clusters to pages is provided in a non-volatile memory system that receives data from a host in clusters and writes data to a memory array in units of a page. Alignment is implemented within each block using offsets in logical-to-physical mapping of data. Different blocks may have different offsets. When a host sends data with different cluster boundary locations, the data may be written with different offsets so that data maintains alignment.

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