Reducing LDPC Soft Sensing Latency by Lightweight Data Refresh for Flash Read Performance Improvement

  • Yajuan Du
  • , Qiao Li
  • , Liang Shi
  • , Deqing Zou*
  • , Hai Jin
  • , Chun Jason Xue
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In order to relieve reliability problem caused by technology scaling, LDPC codes have been widely applied in flash memories to provide high error correction capability. However, LDPC read performance slowdown along with data retention largely weakens the access speed advantage of flash memories. This paper considers to apply the concept of refresh, that were used for flash lifetime improvement, to optimize flash read performance. Exploiting data read characteristics, this paper proposes LDR, a lightweight data refresh method, that aggressively corrects errors in read-hot pages with long read latency and reprograms error-free data into new pages. Experimental results show that LDR can achieve 29% read performance improvement with only 0.2% extra P/E cycles on average, which causes negligible overhead on flash lifetime.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 54th Annual Design Automation Conference 2017, DAC 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781450349277
DOIs
StatePublished - 18 Jun 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event54th Annual Design Automation Conference, DAC 2017 - Austin, United States
Duration: 18 Jun 201722 Jun 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - Design Automation Conference
VolumePart 128280
ISSN (Print)0738-100X

Conference

Conference54th Annual Design Automation Conference, DAC 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period18/06/1722/06/17

Keywords

  • Data Refresh
  • Flash Read Performance
  • LDPC Codes

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