Host-assisted compaction of memory blocks

• Main Authors: MAISLOS ARIEL, ROTBARD BARAK
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 29.04.2015
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

In a system that includes a host and a memory controller that is separate from the host and stores data for the host in a non-volatile memory, a method for data storage includes transferring from the memory controller to the host one or more source blocks from the non-volatile memory for compaction....