Data storage devices and data maintenance methods

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9852032-B2
Application number	US-201715660029-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 26, 2017
Priority date	Nov 13, 2015
Publication date	Dec 26, 2017
Grant date	Dec 26, 2017

Abstract

A data storage device is provided. The data storage device includes a flash memory and a controller. The flash memory includes a plurality of blocks. Each block includes a plurality of pages. when the data storage device is resumed from a power-off event, the controller selects a first block which was written last before the power-off event among the plurality of blocks and writes data of a plurality of first pages of the first block into a plurality of second pages of the first block.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic system, comprising:
a host; and
a data storage device, being operated according to a command from the host, wherein the data storage device comprises:
a flash memory comprising a plurality of blocks, wherein each block comprises a plurality of pages; and
a controller, when the data storage device is resumed from a power-off event, selecting a first block which was written last before the power-off event among the plurality of blocks and writing data of a plurality of first pages of the first block into a plurality of second pages of the first block.

2. The electronic system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first block further comprises a plurality of word lines, the first block is a multi-level cell (MLC) block, and each word line of the first block is used to control two of the pages of the first block.

3. The electronic system as claimed in claim 2 , wherein when the data storage device is resumed from the power-off event, the controller selects the page which was written last before the power-off event among the pages of the first block to serve as a base page and determines the first pages according to a first word line which is used to control the base page among the word lines.

4. The electronic system as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the first pages are the pages which have valid data among a plurality of third pages, and the third pages are controlled by the first word line and at least one second word line arranged antecedently to the first word line.

5. The electronic system as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the controller further writes dummy data into the pages which do not have any valid data among the third pages.

6. The electronic system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the controller further determines whether there are backups of the first pages in a backup block and writes the data of the first pages which do not have any backups in the backup block into the backup block.

7. The electronic system as claimed in claim 6 , wherein according to the data which is stored in the backup block and corresponds to the first pages, the controller further performs a writing operation on the second pages to write the data of the first pages into the second pages.

8. The electronic system as claimed in claim 6 , wherein data protection capability of the backup block is higher than that of the first block.

9. The electronic system as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the first block is a multi-level cell (MLC) block, and the backup block is a single-level cell (SLC) block.

10. The electronic system as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the first block is a triple-level cell (TLC) block, and the backup block is a single-level cell (SLC) block or a multi-level cell (MLC) block.

Assignees

• Silicon Motion Inc

Inventors

• Ke Kuan-Yu

Classifications

• G06F2201/84

  Using snapshots, i.e. a logical point-in-time copy of the data · CPC title

• G06F3/065

  Replication mechanisms · CPC title

• G06F3/0619 Primary

  in relation to data integrity, e.g. data losses, bit errors · CPC title

• G06F11/1666

  where the redundant component is memory or memory area · CPC title

• G06F3/0679

  Non-volatile semiconductor memory device, e.g. flash memory, one time programmable memory [OTP] · CPC title