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Category Archives: Flash
Is 2012 going to be another breakout year for NAND Flash and Low-Power Design?
It’s just one week into the year, I am increasingly getting the feeling that 2012 is going to be a momentous, tumultuous year for semiconductor technology and low-power system design. Among the many recent events that are giving me this … Continue reading
What if 2.5D got really cheap? How would that affect low-power design?
Last week, silicon-interposer foundry Deca Technologies unstealthed. I found out from an article in the San Jose Mercury News and just published a blog about the announcement in my other blog, the EDA360 Insider. Deca is a subsidiary of Cypress … Continue reading
Intel releases low-power, 40Gbyte SSD for $125
Now it’s a trend. Last week, I wrote about the sub-$100, 2.5-inch, 32Gbyte SSD from OCZ. Now Intel makes low-cost SSDs a trend with the introduction of a $125 (when ordering 1000), 2.5-inch, 40Gbyte, “value” edition of its industry-leading X25 … Continue reading
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OCZ’s 32Gbyte Onyx SSD breaks $100 barrier, cuts power
It was only a matter of time. Nobody doubts that solid-state disks (SSDs) will decline in price over time. The only questions are “How fast will prices fall?” and “How much storage will I get for my money”? PC component … Continue reading
Designing Low-Power Systems with FPGAs
Actel has published a White Paper discussing low-power aspects of using FPGAs. It should not surprise you that the White Paper’s points and conclusions favor Actel’s Flash-based FPGAs over SRAM-based FPGAs from other vendors but that bias should not stop … Continue reading
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Free White Paper on NAND Flash from Denali
NAND Flash manufacturing cost reductions of 60% per year sustained over nearly a decade have driven many technology changes, developments, compromises, and innovations. Prices have fallen even faster over the past five years, but the precipitous price decline could easily … Continue reading
Give OTP a chance for low-power, on-chip storage
The on-chip memories that get most of the attention are read/write memories such as SRAM, DRAM, Flash, and MRAM (which I just covered in my previous blog entry). However, there’s a place for OTP (one-time programmable) memory on chip, so … Continue reading
Cut Power Through Peripheral Magic (and SSDs)
You might be focusing all your effort on developing low-power systems by concentrating your efforts on your system’s logic board. Did you stop to consider that you can also find a quick way to cut a lot of power consumption … Continue reading
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State-of-the-Art in Low-Power Memory: Denali’s MemCon
Need gobs of cheap RAM? Need it to operate at the lowest possible power? This blog’s for you. I attended Denali’s ninth annual MemCon conference a few days ago. It was three days of intensive discussion about the state of … Continue reading
