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In addition to these homologous features of memory systems in both plants and animals, plants have also been observed to encode, store and retrieve basic short-term memories. One of the most well-studied plants to show rudimentary memory is the Venus flytrap.

Controller for Non-Volatile Memories and Methods of Operating the Memory Controller

A non-volatile memory system (3) is proposed consisting of a first non-volatile flash memory (5) having a plurality of blocks, each block having a plurality of pages, each block being erasable and each page being programmable, and a second non-volatile random access memory (23) having a plurality of randomly accessible bytes. The second non-volatile memory (23) stores data for mapping logical blocks to physical blocks and status information of logical blocks. Each logical block has an associated physical page pointer stored in the second non-volatile memory (23) that identifies the next free physical page of the mapped physical block to be written. The page pointer is incremented after every page write to the physical block, allowing all physical pages to be fully utilized for page writes. Furthermore, a method of writing and reading data is disclosed whereby the most recently written physical page associated with a logical address is identifiable by the memory system without programming flags into superseded pages, or recording time stamp values in any physical page or block of the first non-volatile memory (5). Furthermore, a method is provided for a logical block to be mapped to two physical blocks instead of one to provide additional space for page writes, resulting in reduction in page copy operations, thereby increasing the performance of the system.
Owner:CHANG CHEE KENG

Cache memory arrangement and methods for use in a cache memory system

An arrangement and methods for operation in a cache memory system to facitate re-synchronising non-volatile cache memories (150B, 160B) following interruption in communication. A primary adapter (150) creates a non-volatile record (150C) of each cache update before it is applied to either cache. Each such record is cleared when the primary adapter knows that the cache update has been applied to both adapters' caches. In the event of a reset or other failure, the primary adapter can read the non-volatile list of transfers which were ongoing. For each entry in this list, the primary adapter negotiates with the secondary adapter (160) and transfers only the data which may be different. The amount of data to be transferred between the adapters following reset/failure is generally much lower than under previous solutions, since the data to be transferred represents only the transactions which were in progress at the time of the reset or failure, rather than the entire non-volatile cache contents; also, new transactions need not be suspended while even this reduced resynchronisation takes place: all that is necessary is for the (relatively short) list of in-doubt quanta of data to be searched (if the transaction does not overlap any entries in this list then it need not be suspended; if it does overlap then the transaction may be queued until the resynchronisation completes).
Owner:IBM CORP
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