High speed memory interface is a critical component to support high speed data in applications like personal computers, mobile phones, and digital cameras. These applications require a high capacity and high performance NAND flash memory, and Toggle2NAND is one of the most suitable NAND interfaces.
Flash storage is one of the most important component of a smart phone, and with every new version comes higher memory capacity and performance. The most rapidly adopted flash memory technology in recent years is Universal Flash Storage (UFS), with UFS v2.1 providing a maximum data rate of ~11Gbps. JEDEC has come up with the faster next-generation UFS v3.0 which uses MIPI UniPro v1.8 (Unified Protocol) and MIPI M-PHY v4.1 as interconnect layer.
Higher storage performance at a lower cost can create a bottleneck in the design of storage devices. In order to achieve higher performance, devices must use on chip DRAM, which adds to the overall cost. This is where Unified Memory Extension (UME), a JEDEC specification, comes into the picture. It is defined as extension to the JEDEC UFS (Universal Flash Storage) specification. JEDEC UFS device uses NAND flash technology for data storage. Unified Memory (UM) allows users to use part of the host memory as the device’s internal memory. Since the host memory is already available in large capacities, this mechanism provides a much bigger space for the device to use as a Write Buffer (WB) cache or to store information such as Logical to Physical (L2P) address translation tables. The UM area is physically located on the host side but ultimately belongs to the device, thereby replacing the device-integrated RAM, and reducing overall cost. Large space availability means the device can store larger amounts of WB of L2P table information resulting in higher storage performance.
Flash memory first came into home with external storage devices (e.g. USB memory devices) at very modest capacities of few MB and have reached to hundreds of GB. Now it has become ubiquitous with applications across myriad of devices ranging from smart phones, to IoT, wearable and consumer electronics. With the explosion in applications, many flash memory protocols came into existence, and let’s talk about one of them – ONFi.
The Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2016 was a great success and here we provide you the highlights of Synopsys’ activities at the event.
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In this video, you will learn how to increase productivity with Synopsys Memory VIP.
Synopsys Memory Verification IP is modeled natively in SystemVerilog and supports the common verification standard UVM. Our models support 100% of the memory standard as specified by JEDEC.
Here, Synopsys Applications Consultant, Vaish Ramachandran, describes how best we can use Synopsys’ VIP Configuration Creator for configuring memory VIPs http://bit.ly/1JcvSII