Electronic devices with improved flash memory compatibility and methods corresponding thereto
US8452914B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 3, 2011 |
| Grant date | May 28, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 6, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F3/0679
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An electronic device with improved flash memory compatibility and a method corresponding thereto are disclosed. The electronic device has a NAND flash, a processing unit and a program memory. The program memory stores application software and codes of an operating system, to be retrieved and executed by the processing unit. The application software requests for NAND flash access in accordance with a specific page size. The operating system acts as an intermediary between the application software and the NAND flash and provides a device driver which allocates a number of physical pages of the NAND flash to each virtual page of the specific page size for responding to NAND flash access requests from the application software by referring to the virtual pages.
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