A time-predictable system initialization design for huge-capacity flash-memory storage systems
Chin-Hsien Wu · 2008
The capacity of flash-memory storage systems grows at a speed similar to many other storage systems. In order to properly manage the product cost, vendors face serious chal-lenges in system designs. How to provide an expected sys-tem initialization time for huge-capacity flash-memory stor-age systems has become an important research topic. In this paper, a time-predictable system initialization design is pro-posed for huge-capacity flash-memory storage systems. The objective of the design is to provide an expected system initialization time based on a coarse-grained flash transla-tion layer. The time-predictable analysis of the design is provided to discuss the relation between the size of main memory and the system initialization time. The system ini-tialization time can be also estimated and predicted by the time-predictable analysis.