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What types of ECC should be used on flash memory?

Posted: 30 Jun 2008  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe

Keywords: NOR flash  error-correcting code  Hamming codes 

[Summary of tips] NOR flash normally does not need error-correcting code (ECC). On the other hand, NAND requires ECC to ensure data integrity. NAND flash includes extra storage on each page to store ECC code as well as other information for wear leveling, logical to physical block mapping, and other software overhead functions. The size of extra......
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