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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Flash-memory"”.
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Study On Endurance Of Flash Memory Ssds
<p>Flash memory promises to revolutionize storage systems because of its massive performance gains, ruggedness, large decrease in power usage and physical space requirements, but it is not a direct replacement for magnetic hard disks. Flash memory possesses fundamentally different characteristics …
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Flash Memory For Ubiquitous Hardware Security Functions
We demonstrate that unmodified commercial Flash memory can provide three important security functions: true random number generation, digital fingerprinting and information hiding. Use of random telegraph noise (a type of quantum noise source in highly scaled Flash memory cells) enables high …
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DEFY: A Deniable File System for Flash Memory
<p>While solutions for file system encryption can prevent an adversary from determining the contents of files, in situations where a user wishes to hide even the existence of data, encryption alone is not enough. Indeed, encryption may draw attention to those files, as they most likely contain …
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Prime-sized multilevel flash memory with non-binary LDPC
Flash memory companies are increasing the number of bits per cell to obtain higher information capacity per cell, starting from 1 bit/cell and going to 4 bits/cell recently. This scaling is enabled by the advancements in flash semiconductor technology, specifically the Bit Cost Scalable (BiCS) …
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Intellectual property strategy : analysis of the flash memory industry
… property strategy of companies in the flash memory industry, with special emphasis on technology and the development of nitride-based flash, a new and emerging type of memory technology. First, general perspectives and frameworks for licensing of patents and know-how are explored. Then, …
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Protein-mediated nanocrystal assembly for floating gate flash memory fabrication
… materials has never been so pressing as today. Flash memories, the driving force of semiconductor memory market in recent years, also face the same or maybe more severe challenges to meet the demands for high-density, low-cost, low-power, high-speed, better endurance and longer retention time. …
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Data reliability and error correction for NAND Flash Memory System
NAND flash memory has been widely used for data storage due to its high density, high throughput, and low power. However, as the flash memory scales to smaller process technologies and stores more bits per cell, its reliability is decreasing. The error correction coding can be used to significantly …
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Generation of analog voltages to improve flash memory read speed
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and, Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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Computer Modeling of Silicon Quantum Dot Floating -Gate Flash Memory Devices
The operation of silicon quantum-dot based flash memory devices are simulated numerically with emphasis on energy and charge quantization in the quantum-dot. The simulation involves the self-consistent solution of three-dimensional (3-D) Poisson and Kohn-Sham equations within the density functional …
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An efficient data deduplication design with flash-memory based solid state drive.
… efficiently use a very limited RAM space with flash-memory as persistent storage. In particular, the proposed chunk filter design can dynamically scale up to adapt to the growth of the dataset. In addition, the proposed chunk index design could achieve high throughput, low latency chunk …
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Application of novel gate materials for performance improvement in flash memory devices
… materials for the performance enhancement of flash memory devices, including both floating gate-type flash memory devices and SONOS-type flash memory devices. These attempts could be of practical value for flash memory devices, especially in improving the operation speed and data retention. A …
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On the use of NAND flash memory in high-performance relational databases
High-density NAND flash storage has become relatively inexpensive due to the popularity of various consumer electronics. Recently, several manufacturers have released IDE-compatible NAND flash-based drives in sizes up to 64 GB at reasonable (sub-$1000) prices. Because flash is significantly more …
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A novel low-temperature growth method of silicon structures and application in flash memory.
Flash memories are solid-state non-volatile memories. They play a vital role especially in information storage in a wide range of consumer electronic devices and applications including smart phones, digital cameras, laptop computers, and satellite navigators. The demand for high density flash has …
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Study of organic molecules and nano-particle/polymer composites for flash memory and switch applications
… and nano-particle/polymer composites for flash memory and switch applications is studied in this dissertation. Facilitating data storage on individual small molecules as the approach the limits in miniaturization for ultra-high density and low power consumption media may enable orders of …
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Built-in controller for self-test and repair of 3D integrated Nand flash memory chip, used in radiation intense space environment
The perennial need for memory storage is further increasing with the advancements in technology. Both terrestrial and space related applications thrive on efficient ways and new technology for storing data that is incorruptible and dependable. Research is continuously carried out on making storage …
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Floating gate engineering for novel nonvolatile flash memories
… better endurance and longer retention has push flash memory technology, which is predominant and the driving force of the semiconductor nonvolatile memory market in recent years, to the position facing great challenges. However, the conventional flash memory technology using continuous highly …
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Organic molecular floating gate memories
Flash memory devices dominate the non-volatile memory market, with device structures that utilize charge storage in polysilicon floating gates imbedded in insulating silicon oxide films'. As demands for high storage density, high chip memory capacity, and decreasing process costs continue to mount, …
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Full-band Monte Carlo simulation of hot electrons in scaled silicon devices
… in different types of n-channel MOSFETs and flash memory structures. A MOSFET with a single source/drain implant, an LDD MOSFET, an SOI MOSFET, and a MOSFET built on top of a heavily doped ""ground plane"" have been simulated. Different scaling techniques have been applied to the devices to …
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An Application Framework for a Power-Aware Processor Architecture
… range of applications. Additionally, an embedded flash memory based architecture design for reduction in the static power consumption is proposed. This thesis estimates significant reduction in overall power consumption with the incorporation of flash memory.
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Molecular and quantum dot floating gate non-volatile memories
Conventional Flash memory devices face a scaling issue that will impede memory scaling beyond the 50nm node: a reliability issue involving the tunneling oxide thickness and charge retention. A possible solution is to replace the continuous floating gate, where charge is stored, with a segmented …
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