Papers
Enabling Ultra-High Bandwidth Scalable SSDs with HLNAND
(White Paper)
Storage Class Memory
(White Paper)
Unleashing a Next-Gen Flash Architecture
(White Paper)
Reducing Power with the HL Interface
(White Paper)
Unleashing the Next Generation of Flash Memory Architecture
Introduction
The phenomenal growth of the Flash memory market in recent years has been driven by consumer-centric applications in mobile handsets, and digital consumer applications such as digital cameras and media players. For these new consumer-centric applications, flash memory—especially NAND Flash memory—is a primary enabling technology. As the cost of flash memory falls, Solid State Drives (SSDs) using Flash memory have become a viable alternative to rotating magnetic Hard Disk Drives (HDDs).
However, the NAND Flash memory interface and architecture has remained essentially unchanged since the introduction of NAND Flash memory 15 years ago. The performance requirements of SSDs cannot be adequately met by the existing NAND Flash interface and architecture. To meet this challenge...
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