Flash Memory System for Solid-state Disk by Using Various Memory Cells

다양한 메모리 셀을 결합한 디스크형 플래쉬 메모리 시스템

  • 정보성 (국립경상대학교 제어계측공학과) ;
  • 이정훈 (국립경상대학교 제어계측공학과)
  • Received : 2009.06.20
  • Accepted : 2009.08.01
  • Published : 2009.09.30

Abstract

We present a flash memory system with low cost and high performance for solid-state disk. The proposed flash system is constructed as a SLC with hot blocks and a MLC with cold blocks. Either the SLC or the MLC is selectively accessed on the basis of a position bit in a mapping table. Our results show that the system enables the SLC size to be reduced by about 80% relative to a conventional SLC while maintaining similar performance. And also, our system can improve a performance by above 60% comparing with a conventional MLC.

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