Patent ID: 9323662
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of operating a non-volatile memory system comprising: receiving a logical address from a host device; converting between the logical address and a virtual physical address, wherein the virtual physical address comprises a virtual die, a number of the virtual die being two or greater; and converting between the virtual physical address and an actual physical address, wherein the actual physical address comprises an actual die, wherein the number of virtual die is different from a number of actual die, wherein a number of virtual blocks per virtual die is different than a number of actual blocks per actual die, wherein converting between the virtual physical address and the actual physical address comprises using a mapping of actual blocks in the actual die with virtual blocks in the virtual die, and wherein a total number of the actual blocks mapped is equal to a total number of the virtual blocks being mapped.