Design of a multichannel NAND Flash memory controller for efficient utilization of bandwidth in SSDs

Jose, Seby; Pradeep, C.

doi:10.1109/imac4s.2013.6526414

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“…NAND is more fit as storage media for large files including video and audio. USB thumb drives, SD cards, and MMC cards are of NAND type [ 54 ]. NAND's advantages are fast write (program) and erase operations, while NOR's advantages are random access and byte write capability.…”

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Overview of emerging nonvolatile memory technologies

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Nonvolatile memory technologies in Si-based electronics date back to the 1990s. Ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET) was one of the most promising devices replacing the conventional Flash memory facing physical scaling limitations at those times. A variant of charge storage memory referred to as Flash memory is widely used in consumer electronic products such as cell phones and music players while NAND Flash-based solid-state disks (SSDs) are increasingly displacing hard disk drives as the primary storage device in laptops, desktops, and even data centers. The integration limit of Flash memories is approaching, and many new types of memory to replace conventional Flash memories have been proposed. Emerging memory technologies promise new memories to store more data at less cost than the expensive-to-build silicon chips used by popular consumer gadgets including digital cameras, cell phones and portable music players. They are being investigated and lead to the future as potential alternatives to existing memories in future computing systems. Emerging nonvolatile memory technologies such as magnetic random-access memory (MRAM), spin-transfer torque random-access memory (STT-RAM), ferroelectric random-access memory (FeRAM), phase-change memory (PCM), and resistive random-access memory (RRAM) combine the speed of static random-access memory (SRAM), the density of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), and the nonvolatility of Flash memory and so become very attractive as another possibility for future memory hierarchies. Many other new classes of emerging memory technologies such as transparent and plastic, three-dimensional (3-D), and quantum dot memory technologies have also gained tremendous popularity in recent years. Subsequently, not an exaggeration to say that computer memory could soon earn the ultimate commercial validation for commercial scale-up and production the cheap plastic knockoff. Therefore, this review is devoted to the rapidly developing new class of memory technologies and scaling of scientific procedures based on an investigation of recent progress in advanced Flash memory devices.

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“…The software managing the flash memories is called Flash Translation Layer (FTL). Its main functionalities are [4][5][6][7][8]:…”

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“…Recently, many methods and tools for the exploration of the NAND flash memory architecture have been proposed and several SSD simulators have been developed [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13].…”

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SystemC/TLM Controller for Efficient NAND Flash Management in Electronic Musical Instruments

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Caldari²,

Gianfelici

et al. 2018

Electronics

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The design of an efficient memory subsystem is a fundamentally challenging task in the design of electronic equipment. The storage hierarchy chosen for a particular design has a significant impact on the overall performance and cost. Flash memory often contains the boot code, operating system kernel, device drivers, middleware, and other application-specific software that can result in megabytes of non-volatile stored data. To maximize the performance, data are moved from non-volatile memory to faster SDRAM (synchronous dynamic random-access memory). Non-volatile memory technologies reach a performance level close to that of dynamic RAMs with the additional benefit of persistent data storage. When cost is critical, an approach where the data are managed directly from non-volatile memory can be used. In this case the non-volatile memory subsystem is constantly accessed to retrieve data. The deep understanding of the system architecture is critical to identify any factor that affects memory performance and the resulting system performance; particularly in specific applications with stricter requests like streaming audio when more than one hundred data streams must be handled in a real-time environment and sound must be generated with a total latency of a few milliseconds. This article reports the development of the system-level model of a controller in a SystemC simulation environment capable of optimizing the use of NAND type flash memories for storage and playback of audio samples in real-time music applications, with the aim of reducing the quantity of the system SDRAM memory, thus lowering the cost of the final product, while still providing the most high-fidelity sound experience.

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A novel multiple dies parallel NAND Flash Memory Controller for high-speed data storage

Zhou

2017

2017 13th IEEE International Conference on Electronic Measurement &Amp; Instruments (ICEMI)

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Design of a multichannel NAND Flash memory controller for efficient utilization of bandwidth in SSDs

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Overview of emerging nonvolatile memory technologies

Overview of emerging nonvolatile memory technologies

SystemC/TLM Controller for Efficient NAND Flash Management in Electronic Musical Instruments

A novel multiple dies parallel NAND Flash Memory Controller for high-speed data storage

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