Endurance enhancement of flash-memory storage systems: An efficient static wear leveling design

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 212-217

  Chang, Yuan Hao ^a   Hsieh, Jen Wei ^b   Kuo, Tei Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Endurance; Flash memory; Reliability; Wear leveling

Indexed keywords

LOGIC DESIGN; LOGIC GATES; RELIABILITY THEORY; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; STATIC ANALYSIS;

FLASH TRANSLATION LAYER PROTOCOL (FTL); WEAR LEVELING;

FLASH MEMORY;

EID: 34547266503     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DAC.2007.375155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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