Antiwear Leveling Design for SSDs with Hybrid ECC Capability

Chien Chung Ho, Yu Ping Liu, Yuan Hao Chang, Tei Wei Kuo

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Abstract

With the joint considerations of reliability and performance, hybrid error correction code (ECC) becomes an option in the designs of solid-state drives (SSDs). Unfortunately, wear leveling (WL) might result in the early performance degradation to SSDs, which is common with a limited number of P/E cycles, due to the efforts to delay the bit-error-rate growth. In this paper, an anti-WL design is proposed to avoid such a performance problem so that the performance of SSDs with hybrid ECC capability can be improved without sacrificing their reliability. The capability of the proposed design was evaluated by a series of experiments, for which it was shown that the proposed design could greatly improve the read and write performance of SSDs up to 50% without affecting the endurance of the investigated SSDs, compared with traditional approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7527690
Pages (from-to)488-501
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Volume25
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Feb

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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