SYSTEM AND METHOD TO WRITE DATA USING PHASE-CHANGE RAM

• US 20120072657A1
• Filed: 09/15/2011
• Published: 03/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Chul, Hwang, Joo Young, Kim, Min Chan
• Application Number:
  US13/233,486
• Publication Number:
  US 20120072657A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/104
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 13/0004 comprising amorphous/crystalline phase transition cells
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 13/0069 Writing or programming circuits or methods

Abstract

A data recording system includes a file system configured to manage block-based input/output of data, a phase-change random access memory (PRAM) configured to write first data among the data in units of sub blocks, and a block abstract layer configured to receive a write command of the first data to a first particular block in the PRAM from the file system and log changed data information to a second particular block in the PRAM in units of sub blocks, and a method to provide the same.

Claims

1. A data recording system comprising:

a file system configured to manage block-based input/output of data;

a phase-change random access memory (PRAM) configured to write first data among the data in units of sub blocks; and

a block abstract layer configured to receive a write command of the first data to a first particular block in the PRAM from the file system and log changed data information to a second particular block in the PRAM in units of sub blocks.

2. The data recording system of claim 1, wherein the changed data information corresponds to a difference between the first data and a second data that has been stored in the first particular block.

3. The data recording system of claim 1, wherein the second particular block is a log block.

4. The data recording system of claim 1, wherein the block abstract layer records the changed data information logged to the second particular block in the first particular block when the second particular block is deficient in spare space.

5. The data recording system of claim 1, wherein the block abstract layer determines whether the changed data information occupies more than a predetermined percentage of the first particular block and logs the changed data information to the second particular block in the PRAM in units of sub blocks when it is determined that the changed data information does not occupy more than the predetermined percentage of the first particular block.

6. The data recording system of claim 1, wherein the changed data information that has been logged to the log block comprises a log start tag and a log end tag.

7. A data recording system comprising:

a file system configured to manage block-based input/output of data;

a phase-change random access memory (PRAM) configured to write first data among the data in units of sub blocks; and

a block abstract layer configured to receive a write command of the first data to a first particular block in the PRAM from the file system, log data of the first particular block to a second particular block in the PRAM, and record changed data information in the first particular block in the PRAM in units of sub blocks.

8. The data recording system of claim 7, wherein the changed data information corresponds to a difference between the first data and a second data that has been stored in the first particular block.

9. The data recording system of claim 7, wherein the second particular block is a log block.

10. The data recording system of claim 9, wherein the data of the first particular block that has been logged to the log block comprises a log start tag and a log end tag.

11. The data recording system of claim 10, wherein after the changed data information is recorded in units of sub blocks in the first particular block in the PRAM, the block abstract layer records success or failure of the recording in the log end tag.

12. The data recording system of claim 7, wherein the block abstract layer determines whether the changed data information occupies more than a predetermined percentage of the first particular block, logs the data of the first particular block to the second particular block in the PRAM and records the changed data information in units of sub blocks in the first particular block in the PRAM when it is determined that the change data information does not occupy more than the predetermined percentage of the first particular block.

13. The data recording system of claim 7, wherein the PRAM writes the first data in units of blocks or sub blocks.

14. The data recording system of claim 13, wherein the block abstract layer determines whether the change data information occupies more than a predetermined percentage of the first particular block, and receives the write command of the first data to the first particular block in the PRAM from the file system and records the changed data information in units of blocks in the second particular block in the PRAM when it is determined that the changed data information occupies more than the predetermined percentage of the first particular block.

15. The data recording system of claim 14, wherein the second particular block is a log block.

16. A method of recording data in a recording system, comprising:

receiving a write command from a file system to write first data among block-based data in a phase-change random access memory (PRAM) in units of sub blocks; and

writing the first data to a first particular block in the PRAM and to log changed data information to a second particular block in the PRAM in units of sub blocks.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the changed data information corresponds to a difference between the first data and a second data that has been stored in the first particular block.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the second particular block is a log block.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the changed data information logged to the log block is recorded in the first particular block when the log block is deficient in spare space.