• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.262-269
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• 2005

Semiconductor scientists and engineers ideally desire the faster but the cheaper non-volatile memory devices. In practice, no single device satisfies this desire because a faster device is expensive and a cheaper is slow. Therefore, in this paper, we use heterogeneous non-volatile memories and construct an efficient hierarchy for them. First, a small RAM device (e.g., MRAM, FRAM, and PRAM) is used as a write buffer of flash memory devices. Since the buffer is faster and does not have an erase operation, write can be done quickly in the buffer, making the write latency short. Also, if a write is requested to a data stored in the buffer, the write is directly processed in the buffer, reducing one write operation to flash storages. Second, we use many types of flash memories (e.g., SLC and MLC flash memories) in order to reduce the overall storage cost. Specifically, write requests are classified into two types, hot and cold, where hot data is vulnerable to be modified in the near future. Only hot data is stored in the faster SLC flash, while the cold is kept in slower MLC flash or NOR flash. The evaluation results show that the proposed hierarchy is effective at improving the access time of flash memory storages in a cost-effective manner thanks to the locality in memory accesses.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.29-43
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• 2004

As the development of an information technique, gradually, mobile device is going to be miniaturized and operates at high speed. By such the requirements, the devices using a flash memory as a storage media are increasing. The flash memory consumes low power, is a small size, and has a fast access time like the main memory. But the flash memory must erase for recording and the erase cycle is limited. JFFS is a representative filesystem which reflects the characteristics of the flash memory. JFFS to be consisted of LSF structure, writes new data to the flash memory in sequential, which is not related to a file size. Mounting a filesystem or an error recovery is achieved through the sequential approach. Therefore, the mounting delay time is happened according to the file system size. This paper proposes a MJFFS to use a multi-checkpoint information to manage a mass flash file system efficiently. A MJFFS, which improves JFFS, divides a flash memory into the block for suitable to the block device, and stores file information of a checkpoint structure at fixed interval. Therefore mounting and error recovery processing reduce efficiently a number of filesystem access by collecting a smaller checkpoint information than capacity of actual files. A MJFFS will be suitable to a mobile device owing to accomplish fast mounting and error recovery using advantage of log foundation filesystem and overcoming defect of JFFS.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.79-89
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• 2014

최근 새롭게 보급되는 휴대기기(스마트폰, 울트라북, 태블릿 PC)로 인하여 고용량과 빠른 속도를 원하는 소비자가 증가하고 있다. 이에 따라 Flash Memory의 수요도 지속적으로 증가하고 있다. Flash Memory는 NAND형과 NOR형으로 구분되어 있다. NAND형 Flash Memory는 NOR형 Flash Memory에 비해 속도는 느리지만 가격이 저렴하다. 그렇기 때문에 NAND형 Flash Memory는 Mobile 시장에서 많이 사용되어지고 있다. 그래서 Flash Memory Test를 위한 Fault 검출은 메우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 Fault 검출 향상을 위한 NAND형 Flash Memory의 Pattern Test를 위한 PMBIST를 제안한다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.932-935
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• 2002

In this paper, we introduce new FTL(Flash Translation Layer) driver algorithm that tolerate the power off errors. FTL driver is the software that provide the block device interface to the upper layer software such as file systems or application programs that using the flash memory as a block device interfaced storage. Usually, the flash memory is used as the storage devices of the mobile system due to its low power consumption and small form factor. In mobile system, the state of the power supplement is not stable, because it using the small sized battery that has limited capacity. So, a sudden power off failure can be occurred when we read or write the data on the flash memory. During the write operation, power off failure may introduce the incomplete write operation. Incomplete write operation denotes the inconsistency of the data in flash memory. To provide the stable storage facility with flash memory in mobile system, FTL should provide the fault tolerance against the power off failure. SSR (Simple Sector Remapper) is a fault tolerant FTL driver that provides block device interface and also provides tolerance against power off errors.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2010년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.58-61
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 I/O Filter Driver 와 NAND FLASH Memory의 적용을 통한 HDD 저장장치의 느린 I/O 성능을 개선하기 위한 방법에 대해 연구했다. 반도체 부품으로서 빠른 I/O 성능을 보이는 NANDFLASH Memory의 적용과 이를 구동시키기 위한 Filter Driver (Device Driver)를 적용했으며, 이를 통해 HDD 저장장치의 향상된 I/O성능을 분석하고 개선하는 방법을 제안한다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.495-498
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• 1998

Mobile computers have restrictions for size, weight, and power consumption that are different from traditional workstations. Storage device must be smaller, lighter. Low power consumed storage devices are needed. At the present time, flash memory device is a reasonable candidate for such device. But flash memory has drawbacks such as bulk erase operation and slow program time. This causes of worse average write performances. This paper suggests a storage method which improves write performance.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.68-73
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• 2006

We propose a damascene gate FinFET with Si nanocrystals implemented on bulk silicon wafer for low voltage flash memory device. The use of optimized SRON (Silicon-Rich Oxynitride) process allows a high degree of control of the Si excess in the oxide. The FinFET with Si nanocrystals shows high program/erase (P/E) speed, large $V_{TH}$ shifts over 2.5V at 12V/$10{\mu}s$ for program and -12V/1ms for erase, good retention time, and acceptable endurance characteristics. Si nanocrystal memory with damascene gate FinFET is a solution of gate stack and voltage scaling for future generations of flash memory device. Index Terms-FinFET, Si-nanocrystal, SRON(Si-Rich Oxynitride), flash memory device.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.191-193
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• 2005

Flash memories are one of best media to support portable computer's storages. However, we need to improve traditional data management scheme due to the relatively slow characteristics of flash operation as compared to RAM memory. In order to achieve this goal, we devise a new scheme called Flash Two Phase Locking (F2PL) scheme for efficient data processing. F2PL improves transaction performance by allowing multi version reads and efficiently handling slow flash write/erase operation in lock management process.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.177-182
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• 2003

Flash memory는 device 특성상 peripheral circuit을 구성하는 transistor의 종류가 다양하고, 이에 따른 각 transistor의 동작 전압 영역이 넓다. 이에 따라 설계 초기의 전기적 특성 사양 결정을 위해서는, 실리콘상에서 소자의 scale down에 따른 전기적 특성을 선 검증하는 과정이 필수적이었으며, 이로 인해 설계 및 소자 개발의 기간을 단축하기 어려웠다. 본 연구에서는 TCAD tool을 사용하여 실리콘상에서의 제작 공정을 거치지 않고, 효과적으로 model parameter를 생성할 수 있도록 하는 방법을 제안하여 전기적 특성 사양 결정과 설계 단계의 시간 지연을 감소할 수 있도록 한다. 또한 성공적 TCAD tool적용을 위해 필요한 process/device simulator의 calibration methodology와 이를 flash 메모리 소자에 대해 적용 검증한 결과를 분석한다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.171-178
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• 2015

Recently NAND flash memory has been found to be the primary cause of low performance in the smart device. NAND flash memory is different from each other the execution time of I/O operations that flash file system is required. Therefore, it is necessary to compare and analyze the flash file system I/O performance for the efficient I/O on smart device. In this paper, it was tested and analyzing the I/O performance of the YAFFS2, JFFS2, UBIFS. Experimental results most read I/O performance is good, but the writing I/O performance is not good. For UBIFS, showed a more good I/O performance compared to other flash file system.