IP Library Granted Patent US 10,642,534
Granted Patent B2
US 10,642,534 · App. 15/644,193 · Granted May 5, 2020

Data storage device

Inventor: Dong Jae Shin (Gyeonggi-do, KR)
Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
G06F3/0659G06F3/0604G06F3/0611G06F3/0679G06F3/0688
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,642,534
App. No.
15/644,193
Granted
May 5, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device; and a controller suitable for controlling the nonvolatile memory device through a command, the controller comprising a memory controller including a queue which includes multiple slots, each of the multiple slots being mapped to one type among a plurality of types of the command, and suitable for processing a descriptor for the command enqueued to the queue to generate the command; and a processor suitable for requesting one slot of the multiple slots mapped to one type among the plurality of types of the command, to the memory controller, and enqueuing, when allocated with the one slot, the descriptor for the command, to the one slot.

Claims (27)

1. A data storage device comprising:

a nonvolatile memory device; and

a controller suitable for controlling the nonvolatile memory device through a command,

the controller comprising

a memory controller including a queue which includes multiple slots, each of the multiple slots being mapped to one type among a plurality of types of the command, and suitable for processing a descriptor for the command enqueued to the queue to generate the command;

a descriptor memory including multiple memory units; and

a processor suitable for requesting one slot of the multiple slots mapped to a first type among the plurality of types of a first command to be generated by the memory controller, to the memory controller, generating a first descriptor for the first command in a first memory unit mapped to the one slot of the multiple memory units when allocated with the one slot, and enqueuing the first descriptor to the one slot,

wherein when a second command of the first type is needed to be generated by the memory controller additionally, the processor requests the one slot to the memory controller, modifies the first descriptor stored in the first memory unit when allocated with the one slot, and enqueues the modified first descriptor for the second command to the one slot, and

wherein the multiple slots are respectively mapped to different types of command used in a read error recovery process that is performed to succeed in an error correction operation for data read from the nonvolatile memory device.

2. The data storage device according to claim 1 , wherein the memory controller, in response to a request for the one slot from the processor, allocates the one slot to the processor when a descriptor previously enqueued to the one slot is completely processed.

3. The data storage device according to claim 1 , wherein the types of command used in the read error recovery process are a read command, a set parameter command, a get parameter command, a data out command and an oversampling read command.

4. A data storage device comprising:

a nonvolatile memory device; and

a controller suitable for controlling the nonvolatile memory device through a command,

the controller comprising

a memory controller including a first queue having one or more slots and a second queue having one or more slots, and suitable for processing descriptors enqueued to the first queue and the second queue to generate commands, the slots of the first queue being respectively mapped to different types of a command used in a read error recovery process that is performed to succeed in an error correction operation for data read from the nonvolatile memory device;

a descriptor memory including multiple memory units; and

a processor suitable for requesting one slot in the first queue or the second queue to the memory controller, generating a descriptor in a memory unit that corresponds to an allocated slot of the multiple memory units, and enqueuing the descriptor to the allocated slot,

wherein a processor requests a slot in the first queue to the memory controller to perform the read error recovery process with a first command, and requests a slot in the second queue to the memory controller to perform a normal operation with a second command,

wherein the memory controller allocates a first slot in the first queue mapped to one type of the first command among the types in response to a request for the slot in the first queue from the processor, and does not allocate a usable slot in the first queue not mapped to the one type of the first command, and

wherein the memory controller allocates a second slot among usable slots in the second queue regardless of type of the second command in response to a request for the slot in the second queue from the processor.

5. The data storage device according to claim 4 ,

wherein the multiple memory units comprises a first multiple memory units, each of the first multiple memory units corresponds to a corresponding slot in the first queue, and a second multiple memory units, each of the second multiple memory units corresponds to a corresponding slot in the second queue, and

wherein each of the first and second multiple memory units stores a descriptor which is enqueued to a corresponding slot in the first and second queues.

6. The data storage device according to claim 4 , wherein, when a command of the same type as the type of the first command is additionally necessary in the read error recovery process, the processor requests the first slot in the first queue, and, when allocated with the first slot, modifies a descriptor stored in a memory unit corresponding to the first slot and enqueues the modified descriptor to the first slot.

7. The data storage device according to claim 4 , wherein the memory controller allocates the first slot in response to the request for the slot in the first queue from the processor, when a descriptor previously enqueued to the first slot is completely processed.

8. The data storage device according to claim 4 , wherein the types of command used in the read error recovery process are a read command, a set parameter command, a get parameter command, a data out command and an oversampling read command.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 7, 2024
From: SK HYNIX INC.
To: MIMIRIP LLC
Reel/Frame 067335/0246 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 7, 2017
From: SHIN, DONG JAE
To: SK HYNIX INC.
Reel/Frame 043125/0377 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2017-0013857 · Jan 31, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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