Method of storing downloadable firmware on bulk media
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1. A method of generating parity bit groups, comprising:
- organizing data in a non-volatile memory system logically in a multidimensional data group array, the data group array having first data group rows in a first dimension and second data group rows in a second dimension that is orthogonal to the first dimension;
generating first parity bit groups corresponding to the first data group rows;
generating second parity bit groups corresponding to the second data group rows;
the first parity bit groups, the second parity bit groups and data groups of the data group array each having an equal number of bits; and
associating logically the generated parity bit groups with the corresponding data group rows.
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A portion of data stored in a non-volatile memory may be found to be corrupted when it is read. Where parity data is generated from portions of data and the parity data is stored with the portions of data, the corrupted data may be reconstructed from the parity data and uncorrupted portions of data.
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1. A method of generating parity bit groups, comprising:
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organizing data in a non-volatile memory system logically in a multidimensional data group array, the data group array having first data group rows in a first dimension and second data group rows in a second dimension that is orthogonal to the first dimension;
generating first parity bit groups corresponding to the first data group rows;
generating second parity bit groups corresponding to the second data group rows;
the first parity bit groups, the second parity bit groups and data groups of the data group array each having an equal number of bits; and
associating logically the generated parity bit groups with the corresponding data group rows. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of managing corrupted data in a non-volatile memory array, the method comprising:
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organizing data in a non-volatile memory system logically in a data group array, the data group array having one or more data group rows;
generating one or more parity bit groups, corresponding to the one or more data group rows a parity bit group having a number of bits equal to the number of bits in a data group;
associating logically the one or more generated parity bit groups with the one or more corresponding data group rows;
using an error correction code to identify a corrupted data group within the data group array; and
using the one or more parity bit groups to correct the corrupted data group. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method of correcting data that is read from a non-volatile memory array within a memory card that is removably connected to a host, comprising:
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reading a data group from the non-volatile memory array;
applying an Error Correction Code (ECC) algorithm to the data group to detect errors and repair ECC-repairable errors in the data group; and
subsequently, if errors that are not ECC-repairable are detected in the data group, using one or more additional data groups and a parity group that is stored in the card to reconstruct data within the data group and substituting the reconstructed data for the data that contains errors. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A method of storing data in a non-volatile memory array that has a minimum unit of programming of a page, a page containing multiple addressable units of data, comprising:
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deriving a parity group by performing a parity operation on a plurality of addressable units of data, the plurality of addressable units of data designated for storage in a page of the non-volatile memory, the parity group having the same size as an addressable unit of data;
storing the plurality of addressable units of data in the page; and
storing the parity group in the non-volatile memory array. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32)
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