Keynote: Endurance Barriers and Solutions for Flash Memory

Flash memory has penetrated many facets of consumer technology in recent years. Within one decade after its invention, we had witnessed the tremendous growth of the flash market. As flash memory gains its momentum, new challenges also emerge. In this talk, we will address endurance issues in the designs of flash-memory storage/file systems. Challenges on the design methodologies will also be presented. In particular, we will present solutions in wear leveling. Related issues in performance enhancement and disturbing problems will be addressed. Multi-stage programming is a paradigm for writing generic programs that do not pay a runtime overhead. The key underlying technology is program generation.