Title
19.3 66.3KIOPS-random-read 690MB/s-sequential-read universal Flash storage device controller with unified memory extension
Abstract
Mobile devices have made remarkable advances in recent years. They generally use embedded NAND storage devices, which are tiny (10s of millimeters square) and low-power (around 1W in the active state) single BGA packages that contain both a controller and NAND chips. Figure 19.3.1 shows read performance of recent embedded NAND storage device products and the maximum link speeds in their standards. The figure indicates that more powerful embedded NAND storage devices are desired by the market. In particular, universal Flash storage (UFS) 2.0, the latest standard, defines high link speed, which is 3× faster than the recent embedded multimedia card (eMMC). In this context, we develop a UFS 2.0 device that introduces new features to the conventional embedded NAND storage device controller architecture to improve read performance. Figure 19.3.2 shows a block diagram of our controller. We improve the read performance in the following ways: 1) suppress the number of NAND read accesses and reduce the read latency by introducing unified memory (UM) and caching data for address translations on it, 2) increase the number of NAND chips activated simultaneously with dedicated hardware and new command scheduling, and 3) maximize bandwidth by supporting 5.8Gb/s 2-lane M-PHY link with low-power analog circuits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ISSCC.2014.6757456
Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
nand circuits,cache storage,flash memories,sequential circuits,2-lane m-phy link,bga package,kiops-random-read device,nand chips,nand read access,ufs 2.0 device,address translation,bit rate 5.8 gbit/s,bit rate 690 mbit/s,caching data,embedded nand storage device,embedded multimedia card,low-power analog circuits,mobile device,read latency,sequential-read device,unified memory extension,universal flash storage 2.0,universal flash storage device controller
Conference
0193-6530
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
4
Authors
14