Computer system having a flash memory storage device

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2006-07-27

2009-08-04

Elmore, Reba I (Department: 2189)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Hierarchical memories

C711S128000, C711S153000

Reexamination Certificate

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07571282

ABSTRACT:
A computer system is provided, wherein a storage device having a flash memory as the main medium is given a cache memory with a high hit rate even in a small capacity and less access overheads, high-speed writing to the flash memory is attained, and the number of rewriting is reduced: wherein a processing device, a cache memory and a flash memory for data via the cache memory to be written in response to a request from the processing device are provided; and a line size of an entry to the cache memory is 1/N (note that N is 2 or larger integer) of an actual page size as a writing unit of the flash memory.

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