A survey of address translation technologies for flash memories

D Ma, J Feng, G Li - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2014 - dl.acm.org
Flash is a type of Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM).
Different from traditional magnetic disks, flash memories have no moving parts and are …

DFTL: a flash translation layer employing demand-based selective caching of page-level address mappings

A Gupta, Y Kim, B Urgaonkar - Acm Sigplan Notices, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Recent technological advances in the development of flash-memory based devices have
consolidated their leadership position as the preferred storage media in the embedded …

Performance impact and interplay of SSD parallelism through advanced commands, allocation strategy and data granularity

Y Hu, H Jiang, D Feng, L Tian, H Luo… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
With the development of the NAND-Flash technology, NAND-Flash based Solid-State Disk
(SSD) has been attracting a great deal of attention from both industry and academia. While a …

Understanding intrinsic characteristics and system implications of flash memory based solid state drives

F Chen, DA Koufaty, X Zhang - ACM SIGMETRICS Performance …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Flash Memory based Solid State Drive (SSD) has been called a" pivotal technology" that
could revolutionize data storage systems. Since SSD shares a common interface with the …

A log buffer-based flash translation layer using fully-associative sector translation

SW Lee, DJ Park, TS Chung, DH Lee, S Park… - ACM Transactions on …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
Flash memory is being rapidly deployed as data storage for mobile devices such as PDAs,
MP3 players, mobile phones, and digital cameras, mainly because of its low electronic …

Forecasting technology success based on patent data

S Altuntas, T Dereli, A Kusiak - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2015 - Elsevier
A novel method for forecasting technology success based on patent data is proposed. Four
criteria, technology life cycle, diffusion speed, patent power, and expansion potential are …

Flashsim: A simulator for nand flash-based solid-state drives

Y Kim, B Tauras, A Gupta… - 2009 First International …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
NAND flash memory-based solid-state disks (SSDs) are becoming popular as the storage
media in domains ranging from mobile laptops to enterprise-scale storage systems due to a …

[PDF][PDF] Write Endurance in Flash Drives: Measurements and Analysis.

S Boboila, P Desnoyers - FAST, 2010 - usenix.org
We examine the write endurance of USB flash drives using a range of approaches: chip-
level measurements, reverse engineering, timing analysis, whole-device endurance testing …

Exploring and exploiting the multilevel parallelism inside SSDs for improved performance and endurance

Y Hu, H Jiang, D Feng, L Tian, H Luo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given the multilevel internal SSD parallelism at the different four levels: channel-level, chip-
level, die-level, and plane-level, how to exploit these levels of parallelism will directly and …

[PDF][PDF] De-indirection for flash-based SSDs with nameless writes.

Y Zhang, LP Arulraj, AC Arpaci-Dusseau… - FAST, 2012 - usenix.org
Abstract We present Nameless Writes, a new device interface that removes the need for
indirection in modern solid-state storage devices (SSDs). Nameless writes allow the device …