A Survey on Flash and other NVMs for designing memory & storage

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A Survey of Software Techniques for Using Non-Volatile Memories for Storage and Main Memory Systems

Accepted in IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2015. Reviews nearly 140 papers.

Part of the abstract:
Non-volatile memory (NVM) devices, such as Flash, phase change RAM (PCM), spin transfer torque RAM (STT-RAM), and resistive RAM (ReRAM or RRAM), offer several advantages and challenges when compared to conventional memory technologies, such as DRAM and magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs). In this paper, we present a survey of software techniques that have been proposed to exploit the advantages and mitigate the disadvantages of NVMs when used for designing memory systems, and, in particular, secondary storage (e.g., solid state drive) and main memory.

This paper will be useful for researchers and practitioners in seeing state-of-art in memory/storage design.