PARTIALLY DE-CENTRALIZED LATCH MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURES FOR STORAGE DEVICES
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1. A memory system comprising:
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non-volatile memory coupled with the controller, wherein the non-volatile memory further comprises;
a non-volatile memory array comprising a plurality of dies;
latches that are located on the dies; and
latch management circuitry that identifies one of the plurality dies as a leader die, wherein the leader die performs a data transfer to or from one or more latches from one of the dies.
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Abstract
A storage device may utilize de-centralized latch management to remove functions from the device controller to the memory die. NAND die located on a common bus may share a pool of latches with one die acting as a proxy or manager for the other die. A bridge or bridges may be used between NAND connections to allow additional die to be controlled by a leader die for the partially de-centralized management of latches. The latch management operations may include a sequence of commands/operations performed by the leader die.
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22 Claims
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1. A memory system comprising:
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a controller; non-volatile memory coupled with the controller, wherein the non-volatile memory further comprises; a non-volatile memory array comprising a plurality of dies; latches that are located on the dies; and latch management circuitry that identifies one of the plurality dies as a leader die, wherein the leader die performs a data transfer to or from one or more latches from one of the dies. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A memory system comprising:
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a controller; a plurality of memory dies coupled with the controller, wherein the memory dies further comprise; cache storage on each of the memory dies for storing data; and caching logic circuitry that is used by a leader die for managing the cache storage for a group of the dies that are connected with the leader die, wherein the managing by the leader die comprises identifying which of the cache storage is used for a data transfer. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A memory device with a controller and NAND memory, the device comprising:
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means for determining a leader die from dies in the NAND memory; means for receiving a command that includes a data transfer to or from one or more latches from the dies in the NAND memory; and means for the leader die to manage the data transfer.
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