ICE3028: Embedded Systems Design (Spring 2017)

[Resources]

• Jasmine Technical Resources
• Introduction to Solid State Drives (SSDs)
  • Solid-State Storage
  • Solid-state Revolution: in-depth on how SSDs really work
  • Benefits of a Solid State Drive - An SSD Primer (and other related articles)
  • Caching, tiering, and hybrids: where and how SSD can fit into your environment
• ARM Information Center
  • ARMv5 Architecture Reference Manual (registration required)
  • ARM7TDMI-S Technical Reference Manual (Revision: r4p3)
  • ARM and Thumb-2 Instruction Set Reference Card
  • Thumb 16-bit Instruction Set Quick Reference Card
• Selected papers on FTLs
  • D. Ma, J. Feng, and G. Li, "A Survey of Address Translation Technologies for Flash Memories,'' ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 46, No. 3, January 2014.
  • M.-L. Chiang, P. C. H. Lee, and R.-C. Chang, "Using Data Clustering to Improve Cleaning Performance for Flash Memory," Software - Practice and Experience, Vol. 29, No. 3, 1999.
  • J. Kim, J. M. Kim, S. Noh, S. L. Min, and Y. Cho, "A Space-efficient Flash Translation Layer for CompactFlash Systems," IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp.366-375, 2002.
  • S.-W. Lee, D.-J. Park, T.-S. Chung, D.-H. Park, .-J. Song, "A Log-buffer based Flash Translation Layer using Fully-Associative Sector Translation," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2007.
  • D. Jung, J.-U. Kang, H. Jo, J.-S. Kim, and J. Lee, "Superblock FTL: A Superblock-based Flash Translation Layer with a Hybrid Address Translation Scheme," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2010.
  • Y.-G. Lee, D. Jung, D. Kang, and J.-S. Kim, "μ-FTL: A Memory-Efficient Flash Translation Layer Supporting Multiple Mapping Granularities," Proceedings of the 8th Annual ACM Conference on Embedded Software, 2008.
  • A. Gupta, Y. Kim, and B. Urgaonkar, "DFTL: A Flash Translation Layer Employing Demand-based Selective Caching of Page-level Address Mappings," Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2009.
  • H. Kwon, E. Kim, J. Choi, D. Lee, and Sam H. Noh, "Janus-FTL: Finding the Optimal Point on the Spectrum between Page and Block Mapping Schemes," Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Software, 2010.
  • F. Chen, T. Luo, and X. Zhang, "CAFTL: A Content-Aware Flash Translation Layer Enhancing the Lifespan of Flash Memory based Solid State Drives," Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2011.
• Misc.
  • Installer (Win XP)
• Comp Δ