Embedded Flash Memory for Embedded Systems

✍ Scribed by Hidaka, Hideto

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 253
• Series: Integrated Circuits and Systems
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to embedded flash memory, describing the history, current status, and future projections for technology, circuits, and systems applications. The authors describe current main-stream embedded flash technologies from floating-gate 1Tr, floating-gate with split-gate (1.5Tr), and 1Tr/1.5Tr SONOS flash technologies and their successful creation of various applications. Comparisons of these embedded flash technologies and future projections are also provided. The authors demonstrate a variety of embedded applications for auto-motive, smart-IC cards, and low-power, representing the leading-edge technology developments for eFlash. The discussion also includes insights into future prospects of application-driven non-volatile memory technology in the era of smart advanced automotive system, such as ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System) and IoE (Internet of Everything). Trials on technology convergence and future prospects of embedded non-volatile memory in the new memory hierarchy are also described.

• Introduces the history of embedded flash memory technology for micro-controller products and how embedded flash innovations developed;
  
• Includes comprehensive and detailed descriptions of current main-stream embedded flash memory technologies, sub-system designs and applications;
  
• Explains why embedded flash memory requirements are different from those of stand-alone flash memory and how to achieve specific goals with technology development and circuit designs;
  
• Describes a mature and stable floating-gate 1Tr cell technology imported from stand-alone flash memory products - that then introduces embedded-specific split-gate memory cell technologies based on floating-gate storage structure and charge-trapping SONOS technology and their eFlash sub-system designs;
  
• Describes automotive and smart-IC card applications requirements and achievements in advanced eFlash beyond 4

0nm node.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-viii
Introduction (Hideto Hidaka)....Pages 1-6
Applications and Technology Trend in Embedded Flash Memory (Hideto Hidaka)....Pages 7-27
Overview of Embedded Flash Memory Technology (Takashi Kono, Tomoya Saito, Tadaaki Yamauchi)....Pages 29-74
Floating-Gate 1Tr-NOR eFlash Memory (Antonino Conte, Fabio Disegni, Francesco La Rosa, Alfonso Maurelli)....Pages 75-129
Split-Gate Floating Poly SuperFlash® Memory Technology, Design, and Reliability (Nhan Do, Hieu Van Tran, Alex Kotov, Vipin Tiwari)....Pages 131-178
SONOS 1Tr eFlash Memory (Hidenori Mitani, Ken Matsubara)....Pages 179-208
SONOS Split-Gate eFlash Memory (Takashi Ito, Yasuhiko Taito)....Pages 209-244
Back Matter ....Pages 245-247

✦ Subjects

Memory management (Computer scie