Controller Functions – Wear Leveling
Wear Leveling and Sequential Writing to NAND Memory: The image above shows…
Controller Architecture – Basic Overview
The reason for the controller function is to manage the NAND components…
NAND Architecture – Strings and Arrays
Diagram of a Single NAND Flash Cell: Combining Individual NAND Flash Cells…
How MLC and TLC store more than one bit per cell
The example above shows a SLC (Single Level Cell) NAND Cell. When…
What does a NAND Cell look like?
A simple NAND Flash Cell diagram is shown above. The NAND flash cell…
Solid State Drives (SSD) Upgrade – 5 Things You Should Know
If you’re thinking of getting a Solid State Drive (SSD) for your…
The Need for High Speed Interfaces
Processor vendors have continued to ramp the performance of individual processor cores,…
PCI-Express
PCI-Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) or PCIe is a bus standard that…
SAS and SATA
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a communication protocol traditionally used to move…


