As memory storage density increases, it’s more likely that some sectors inside the embedded flash are defective. Therefore, all manufacturers add a small microcontroller to their cards (along ...
The late 1990s saw the widespread introduction of solid-state storage based around NAND Flash. Ranging from memory cards for portable devices to storage for desktops and laptops, the data storage ...
To store ever more data in electronic devices of the same size, the manufacturing processes for these devices need to be studied in greater detail. By ...
However, this block erasing is flash memory's peculiarity. Flash memory cells must be erased before they can be written to. Cells make up pages, and pages make up blocks, but while pages are ...
However, two teams of researchers have developed a type of flash memory that's capable of retaining data at temperatures that ...