This disclosure provides for host-controller cooperation in managing NAND flash memory.
The controller maintains information for each erase unit which tracks memory usage. This …

(57) ABSTRACT A method of caching data is performed by a respective com puter having
one or more processors storing one or more storage management programs for execution …

This disclosure provides techniques for cooperative inter action between a memory
controller and host. The tech niques call for the memory controller to store information …

This disclosure provides for improvements in managing multi-drive, multi-die or multi-plane
NAND flash memory. In one embodiment, the host directly assigns physical addresses and …

Processing functions are offloaded to a memory controller for nonvolatile memory by a host
in connection with write data. The nonvolatile memory executes these functions, producing …

This disclosure provides for improvements in managing multi-drive, multi-die or multi-plane
NAND flash memory. In one embodiment, the host directly assigns physical addresses and …

(57) ABSTRACT A host stores “context” metadata for logical block addresses (LBAs) in a
manner tied to physical location. Notwithstand ing log-structured or copy on write processes …

This disclosure provides for host-controller cooperation in managing NAND flash memory.
The controller maintains information for each erase unit which tracks memory usage. This …

(57) ABSTRACT Related US Application Data This disclosure provides for improvements in
managing multi-drive, multi-die or multi-plane NAND flash memory.(63) Continuation of …

This disclosure provides techniques of hierarchical address virtualization within a memory
controller and configurable block device allocation. By performing address translation only …