Technology: Solutions for MobileMobile flash applications today are unable to offer advanced ECC, as the cost, power, and silicon area required for traditional implementations are prohibitive in a mobile setting. LEC solutions for mobile applications offer lowered costs, significantly extended battery life, and a practical silicon footprint for mobile applications.
Cost: Today, all but the simplest mobile applications must use SLC and MLC, the most expensive types of flash memory. TLC flash, which stores more bits per cell, is unable to realize the reliability and endurance of the more expensive types of flash memory. LEC’s superior error correction capabilities allow manufacturers to extend the lifetime of cheap TLC flash, thereby enabling lower overall costs and higher memory density. Power consumption: Mobile and embedded applications must often operate within a tight power envelope. The power consumption of a LEC advanced error correction solution is more than 10X lower than that of the best alternative implementation, allowing for extended battery life or increased power budget for other functionality. Area: In mobile and embedded applications, razor-thin margins and constrained form factors often restrict the amount of silicon area available for an error correction solution. Lyric’s LEC error correction solutions are 30X smaller than the best alternative implementation. |
