Voltage Manager for Memory System Abnormality Recovery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing memory systems lack effective mechanisms to manage and recover from voltage abnormalities, which can disrupt data operations and storage processes, leading to potential data loss or corruption.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a voltage manager and operation manager is integrated into the memory system to monitor voltage levels, detect abnormalities, and reperform operation controls when necessary, ensuring continuous data integrity and system reliability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If voltage monitoring and reperformance mechanisms are added to the memory system, then reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The voltage manager continuously monitors voltage levels before operations are executed, and the operation manager maintains a queue of pending operations that can be reperformed if voltage abnormalities are detected. This preliminary preparation ensures that when voltage issues occur, the system can quickly recover without complex real-time decision-making during operation execution.
Solution Approach 2:
The voltage manager acts as an intermediary component that decouples the voltage monitoring function from the operation execution function. This modular architecture allows the operation manager to focus on operation control while delegating voltage monitoring to the voltage manager, reducing overall system complexity through functional separation.
2Reliability
If voltage monitoring is continuously performed, then reliability is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The voltage monitoring mechanism is integrated into the existing memory controller architecture, where the voltage manager utilizes the controller's existing processing resources and voltage sensing capabilities. This self-service approach avoids adding dedicated high-power monitoring hardware, thereby minimizing additional energy consumption while maintaining continuous voltage surveillance for data integrity.
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AI summary
Provided herein may be an electronic device, a memory system having the electronic device, and an operating method thereof. The electronic device may include a voltage manager configured to determine whether a voltage abnormality occurs by monitoring a voltage to be supplied to a target device, and an operation manager configured to perform an operation control of the target device, and re-perform, when the voltage manager determines that the voltage abnormality has occurred, the operation control being performed at a time of the occurrence of the voltage abnormality.