Covering codes for multilevel flash memories

Kathryn Haymaker, Christine A. Kelley
2012 2012 Conference Record of the Forty Sixth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ASILOMAR)  
Write-once-memory (WOM) and flash codes are used to increase the number of writes in flash memories in order to improve the lifetime of flash-based storage systems. An early construction method of binary WOM codes used cosets of a binary linear code in the writing process, and the covering radius of the code was used to determine the number of writes possible. In this paper, we show how to combine this method with non binary codes for multilevel flash cells, and introduce a new family of
more » ... WOM codes using the finite Euclidean geometry EG( m, 3).
doi:10.1109/acssc.2012.6489155 dblp:conf/acssc/HaymakerK12 fatcat:4fsrjhvzxzcddixysjp6sftwhu