Architectural Techniques for Improving NAND Flash Memory Reliability

08/12/2018
by   Yixin Luo, et al.
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Raw bit errors are common in NAND flash memory and will increase in the future. These errors reduce flash reliability and limit the lifetime of a flash memory device. We aim to improve flash reliability with a multitude of low-cost architectural techniques. We show that NAND flash memory reliability can be improved at low cost and with low performance overhead by deploying various architectural techniques that are aware of higher-level application behavior and underlying flash device characteristics. We analyze flash error characteristics and workload behavior through experimental characterization, and design new flash controller algorithms that use the insights gained from our analysis to improve flash reliability at a low cost. We investigate four directions through this approach. (1) We propose a new technique called WARM that improves flash reliability by 12.9 times by managing flash retention differently for write-hot data and write-cold data. (2) We propose a new framework that learns an online flash channel model for each chip and enables four new flash controller algorithms to improve flash reliability by up to 69.9 3D NAND through a comprehensive experimental characterization of real 3D NAND chips, and propose four new techniques that mitigate these new errors and improve 3D NAND reliability by up to 66.9 called HeatWatch that improves 3D NAND reliability by 3.85 times by utilizing self-healing effect to mitigate retention errors in 3D NAND.

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