Patent ID: 8131916

Claim:
A data storage device comprising: at least two flash devices for storing data; a circuit board, wherein each said at least two flash devices are integrated on said circuit board; a controller integrated on said circuit board for reading and writing to each said at least two flash devices, wherein said controller interfaces each said at least two flash devices individually through an independent NAND bus; at least one NOR Flash device in communication with said controller through an independent host bus; at least one host bus memory device in communication with said controller through said host bus; and at least one interface in communication with said controller and adapted to physically and electrically couple to a system, receive and store data therefrom and retrieve and transmit data to said system, wherein each flash device is a chip adapted for including at least two dies; wherein said controller is adapted to communicate with all the flash devices simultaneously, and wherein the host bus is utilized for communication between the controller and exclusively the NOR Flash device and the host bus memory device.