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%T A High Performance Reconfigurable Architecture for Flash File Systems
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%A Irfan Mir, Alistair A. McEwan, Neil J. Perrins
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%E Peter H. Welch, Frederick R. M. Barnes, Kevin Chalmers, Jan Bækgaard Pedersen, Adam T. Sampson
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2012
%X NAND flash memory is widely adopted as the primary storage
medium in
embedded systems. The design of the flash
translation layer, and
exploitation of parallel I/O
architectures, are crucial in achieving
high performance
within a flash file system. In this paper we present
our new
FPGA based flash management framework using
reconfigurable
computing that supports high performance
flash storage systems. Our
implementation is in Verilog, and
as such enables us to design a highly
concurrent system at a
hardware level in both the flash translation
layer and the
flash controller. Results demonstrate that implementing
the
flash translation layer and flash controller directly in
hardware,
by exploiting reconfigurable computing, permits us
to exploit a highly
concurrent architecture that leads to
fast response times and throughput
in terms of read/write
operations.