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Simtek provides one of the fastest and most reliable non-volatile memories
in the market. The Simtek NVSRAM is well suited to replace SRAM, BBSRAM (Battery
Backed SRAM), and FRAM (Ferroelectric RAM) and is used for storage,
hard disk, copier,
printer, industrial control, military, metering, telecom, medical, dotcom and
automotive applications. More information about Simtek is available at
www.simtek.com.
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| Bad block
management in flash SSDs |
This is an introduction to the thinking behind
one of the many vital functions inside a flash
SSD controller.
Native
media defect quality in new flash memory chips has grown steadily worse in the
past 10 years as geometries have shrunk. |
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This article enumerates
the scale of the problem and explains how intrinsically dodgy flash memory
is transformed into dependable flash SSDs which you can entrust with your data.
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