A strategy to emulate NOR flash with NAND flash

ACM Transactions on Storage

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Chang, Yuan Hao ^a   Hsieh, Jen Wei ^c   Lin, Jian Hong ^b   Kuo, Tei Wei ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data prefetching; Flash memory; NAND; NOR

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION EXECUTION; DATA ACCESS; DATA PREFETCHING; EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN; EXECUTION TRACE; IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES; MARKET DEMAND; NAND FLASH; NAND FLASH MEMORY; NOR FLASH; NOR FLASH MEMORY; PREFETCHING; RUNTIME OVERHEADS; TARGET APPLICATION;

NAND CIRCUITS; STATIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

FLASH MEMORY;

EID: 77955189170     PISSN: 15533077     EISSN: 15533093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1807060.1807062     Document Type: Article

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