Implementing enhanced performance flash memory devices

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9411519
APP PUB NO 20160170656A1
SERIAL NO

14695828

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A method and apparatus for implementing performance in a flash memory system in a computer system. A flash memory chip includes a function engine performing garbage collection and scrub operations using an internal bus for data movement. The system includes an on-flash chip memory buffer buffering garbage collection and scrub requests. Garbage collection and scrub operations are interleaved with mainline reads and writes.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Tressler, Gary A Sandy Hook, US 54 629
Vidyapoornachary, Diyanesh Babu C Bangalore, IN 10 71

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