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Reconfigurable Integrated Flash Memory Software Architecture with FAT Compatibility  

Kim, Yu-Mi (하이닉스 반도체 F-Solution 개발팀)
Choi, Yong-Suk ((주)Irumtek)
Baek, Seung-Jae (단국대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Choi, Jong-Moo (단국대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters / v.16, no.1, 2010 , pp. 17-22 More about this Journal
Abstract
As deployments of Flash memory are spreading out rapidly from tiny USB storages to large DB servers, interoperability become an indispensable requirement for Flash memory software architecture. For the purpose, many systems make use of the conventional FAT file system and FTL (Flash Translation Layer) software as a de facto standard. However, the tactless combination of the FAT file system and FTL does not satisfy diverse other requirements of a variety of systems. In this paper, we propose a novel reconfigurable integrated Flash memory software architecture, named INFLAWARE (INtegrated FLAsh softWARE) that supports not only interoperability but also reconfigurability and performance enhancement. Real implementation based experimental results have shown that INFLAWARE can achieve improvements of memory footprint up to 27% with an average of 19%, compared with the conventional FAT and FTL combination. Also, by using map_destroy technique, it can reduce response times of various applications up to 21% with an average of 10%.
Keywords
Flash memory; FAT; FTL; Interoperability; Reconfigurability; Performance Enhancement;
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