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Systems And Methods Providing Wear Leveling Using Dynamic Randomization For Non-volatile Memory
Systems And Methods Providing Wear Leveling Using Dynamic Randomization For Non-volatile Memory
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Systems and methods for dynamically remapping elements of a set to another set based on random keys. Application of said systems and methods to dynamically mapping regions of memory space of non-volatile memory, e.g., phase-change memory, can provide a wear-leveling technique. The wear leveling technique can be effective under normal execution of typical applications, and in worst-case scenarios including the presence of malicious exploits and/or compromised operating systems, wherein constantly migrating the physical location of data inside the PCM avoids information leakage and increases security; wherein random relocation of data results in the distribution of memory requests across the physical memory space increases durability; and wherein such wear leveling schemes can be implemented to provide fine-grained wear leveling without overly-burdensome hardware overhead e.g., a look-up table.
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8/12/2014
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