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专利名称：FLASH MEMORY SYSTEM STARTUP
OPERATION
发明人：GONZALEZ, Carlos, J.,TOMLIN, Andrew申请号：EP04815082.5申请日：20041216公开号：EP1700207A1公开日：20060913
摘要：Multiple copies of firmware code for controlling operation of a non-volatileflash memory system are stored at different suitable locations of the flash memory of amemory system. A map of addresses of these locations is also stored in the flashmemory. Upon initialization of the memory system, boot code stored in the memorycontroller is executed by its microprocessor to reference the address map and load onecopy of the firmware from the flash memory into a controller memory, from which it maythen be executed by the microprocessor to operate the memory system to store andretrieve user data. An error correction code (ECC) is used to check the data but the bestportions of the two or more firmware copies stored in the flash memory are used toreduce the need to use ECC. The firmware code may be stored in the flash memory intwo-states when user data is stored in the same memory in more than two-states.
申请人：SanDisk Corporation
地址：140 Caspian Court Sunnyvale, CA 940 US
国籍：US
代理机构：Hitchcock, Esmond Antony
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