Physical block addressing of electronic memory devices

Details Physical block addressing of electronic memory devices Physical block addressing of electronic memory devices

2011-05-31

2011-05-31

Thai, Tuan V. (Department: 2185)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Addressing combined with specific memory configuration or...

C711S100000, C711S103000, C711S154000

Reexamination Certificate

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07953919

ABSTRACT:
Systems and/or methods that facilitate accessing data to/from a memory are presented. An electronic memory component can operate with reduced data access times by eliminating/reducing the use of logical block addressing and employing physical block addressing. Data access is thereby directly associated with the physical location of the stored bits and the need to translate between a logical address and the physical address is reduced or eliminated. This can be even more efficient under asymmetric data access patterns. Further, legacy support for logical block addressing can be included to provide backward compatibility, mixed mode operation, or complimentary mode operation.

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