A NAND Flash PC Platform Read Write Cache

Author

Pon, Harry ; Rao, Kishore

Author_Institution

Intel Corp., Folsom

fYear

2007

fDate

26-30 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

22

Abstract

The traditional and ideal use of NAND flash has been primarily for the storage of digital images, music files, or data files in various memory cards types or USB keys. In this paper, a new non-volatile memory layer hierarchy is introduced into the PC computing platform as a NAND flash read write cache interfacing to the PCI express bus. The usage model of NAND flash in the consumer memory card environment is dramatically different from that of the PC computing environment. Consequently, the NAND flash PC platform cache usage model, work load analysis, reliability requirements and respective results was discussed.

Keywords

NAND circuits; cache storage; flash memories; integrated circuit reliability; random-access storage; NAND flash; PC platform; PCI express bus; cache usage model; nonvolatile memory layer hierarchy; read write cache; reliability requirements; work load analysis; Cache storage; Cities and towns; Digital images; Flash memory; Hard disks; Image storage; Nonvolatile memory; Random access memory; Read-write memory; Universal Serial Bus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory Workshop, 2007 22nd IEEE

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0753-2

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0753-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NVSMW.2007.4290564

Filename

4290564