Characterizing 3D Charge Trap NAND Flash: Observations, Analyses and Applications

In the 3D era, the Charge Trap (CT) NAND flash is employed by mainstream products, thus having a deep understanding of its characteristics is becoming increasingly crucial for designing flash-based systems. In this paper, to enable such understanding, we implement comprehensive experiments on advanced 3D CT NAND flash chips by developing an ARM-and FPGA-based evaluation platform. Based on the experimental results, we first make distinct observations on the characteristics of 3D CT NAND flash, including its performance and reliability features. Then we give analyses of the observations from physical and circuit aspects. Finally, based on the unique characteristics of 3D CT NAND flash, suggestions to optimize the flash management algorithms in real applications are presented.

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