Flash Memory Management for Lightweight Storage Systems

This report describes a management scheme for flash memory-based storage systems. This scheme will be implemented into a flash memory-based FAT file system in the Ramos project running in the Institute of Information Science (IIS). Ramos project targets on building software components for real time and multimedia applications that most of the consumer electronic products can be easily constructed by these software components. The flash memory-based file system is especially important to those products because flash memory is lightweight, shock-resistant, nonvolatile, powerefficient and is wildly used in these products.