Non-volatile storage device and control method thereof

Details Non-volatile storage device and control method thereof Non-volatile storage device and control method thereof

2005-09-13

2005-09-13

Phung, Anh (Department: 2824)

Static information storage and retrieval

Floating gate

Particular biasing

C365S185110

Reexamination Certificate

active

06944060

ABSTRACT:
A memory card (100) is comprised of: a flash memory (120) that includes a plurality of physical blocks (122) made up of a plurality of pages for storing data and a page register (121) that holds data to be written to a page; and a controller (110) that specifies and erases an invalid physical block with reference to a valid block table (114) indicating whether valid data is stored in each of the physical blocks (122), when data is written, and that transfers, at the same time, the data to be written to the page register (121) while carrying out said erasure.

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