The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with permission ...

Persistent memory (PM) used to be the norm when magnetic core memory was ubiquitous, but volatile DRAM now dominates main memory. While non-volatile memory (NVM) is used for booting and application ...

No matter which flash-memory-programming method you use, optimization of the programming algorithm is a key consideration. It has the potential to reduce flash-programming time and, therefore, ...