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Date of Patent
October 12, 2010
Patent Application Number
11727986
Date Filed
March 29, 2007
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Patent abstract
A method for writing into a flash memory device includes calculating a physical block for writing data thereto, checking whether the calculated physical block has been erased since a last power-up of the device and if it has been erased writing the data, or, if it has not been erased performing a refresh operation thereby obtaining a newly erased block since a last power-up that the data can be written to. The newly erased block may be the calculated block or another block of the flash memory.
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