Tag Archives: Flash memory

How Skyera developed the 44Tbyte, enterprise-class Skyhawk SSD from the ground up. A System Realization story.

Posted on August 22, 2012 by sleibson2

I rarely get to tell an in-depth System Realization story like this one. The development of the 44Tbyte, enterprise-class Skyhawk SSD starts with a clear picture of the objective—build an enterprise-class, solid-state storage server using commercial MLC (multi-level cell) NAND … Continue reading →

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Friday Video: A personal invitation to Memcon from Sanjay Srivastava

Posted on August 17, 2012 by sleibson2

Want to know why you need to be at Memcon this year? Here’s Denali Software founder Sanjay Srivastava to tell you why: Now go and sign up! It’s a free ticket and includes breakfast, lunch, and some goodies—not to mention … Continue reading →

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Two more low-cost dev boards based on the ARM Cortex-M4 with 1Mbyte of Flash, 192Kbytes of RAM: $15.57 and up

Posted on July 23, 2012 by sleibson2

Thanks to http://www.chibios.org, I’ve just learned of two low-cost development boards based on the STMicroelectronics STM32F07 microcontroller. You might be interested in these boards because one costs $15.57 and the other sells for 39.95€. The lower-cost board is from STMicroelectronics … Continue reading →

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3D Thursday: Micron stacks Phase-Change Memory and SDRAM

Posted on July 19, 2012 by sleibson2

Yesterday, Micron announced volume production of a new memory device containing one 1Gbit PCM (phase-change memory) die and one 512Mbit LPDDR2 SDRAM die. The two die reside in the device package as stacked die, with wire-bonded interconnect. This is a … Continue reading →

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The Freescale Kinetis L microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex-M0+ processor core: But what do they do???

Posted on June 21, 2012 by sleibson2

A couple of days ago, I wrote that Freescale had announced that it was shipping alpha samples of its new Kinetis L microcontroller, which is based on the 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0+ processor core. (See “Freescale starts sampling $0.49 Kinetis L … Continue reading →

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Freescale starts sampling $0.49 Kinetis L microcontrollers based on ARM Cortex-M0+ processor core

Posted on June 19, 2012 by sleibson2

There are two major reasons for reading this blog post: A 32-bit microcontroller that sells for as little as $0.49 in 10K quantities and consumes 50µA/MHz A $12.95 development board to be available late in September These are two of … Continue reading →

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3D Thursday: A look at some genuine 3D NAND cells, courtesy of Micron

Posted on August 11, 2011 by sleibson2

Glen Hawk, Vice President of the NAND Solutions Group at Micron, was giving the usual polished corporate keynote presentation at this week’s Flash Memory Summit held in Santa Clara, CA. Suddenly, his level tone of voice changed and he got … Continue reading →

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3D Thursday: The most expensive RAM in the world

Posted on July 21, 2011 by sleibson2

CTO Israel Beinglass over at Monolithic 3D has published a thought-provoking blog on the company site titled “The most expensive SRAM in the world.” Beinglass deconstructs a 45nm Intel Penryn processor, saying that 50% of the die is SRAM and … Continue reading →

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