Title :
Joint management of RAM and flash memory with access pattern considerations
Author :
Po-Chun Huang ; Chang, Yuan-Hao ; Kuo, Tei-Wei
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
The popularity of flash memory has triggered the emerging of various products with flash memory as storage medium. More advanced architectures with better hardware resources are now explored by vendors to fit different market needs. Different from the past work, this paper proposes to consider RAM as a storage medium together with flash memory to take advantage of the characteristics of both RAM and flash memory. In particular, an adaptive management strategy is proposed with the considerations of access patterns to improve both the system performance and the system endurance. The capability of the proposed approach is evaluated by a series of experiments, for which we have very encouraging results1.
Keywords :
flash memories; memory architecture; performance evaluation; random-access storage; storage management; RAM management; access pattern considerations; adaptive management strategy; flash memory management; hardware resources; memory architecture; storage medium; system endurance; system performance; Binary search trees; Flash memory; Joints; Performance evaluation; Random access memory; System performance; Flash Memory; Hybrid Storage Device;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2012 49th ACM/EDAC/IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4503-1199-1