非易失性半導(dǎo)體存儲(chǔ)器的相變機(jī)制
PCM被業(yè)界看好是因?yàn)閮纱笤?。第一原因?a class="contentlabel" href="http://www.ex-cimer.com/news/listbylabel/label/存儲(chǔ)器">存儲(chǔ)器功能性增強(qiáng):這些改進(jìn)之處包括更短的隨機(jī)訪存時(shí)間、更快的讀寫速度,以及直接寫入、位粒度和高耐讀寫能力。整合今天的閃存和快速動(dòng)態(tài)隨機(jī)訪問存儲(chǔ)器(DRAM)的部分特性,PCM技術(shù)將存儲(chǔ)器的功能提升到一個(gè)新的水平,最終不僅可以取代閃存,還能替代DRAM的部分用處,如常用操作碼保存和高性能磁盤緩存 (圖2) 。
本文引用地址:http://www.ex-cimer.com/article/101459.htm存儲(chǔ)單元小和制造工藝可以升級是讓人們看好PCM的第二大理由。相變物理性質(zhì)顯示制程有望升級到5 nm節(jié)點(diǎn)以下,有可能把閃存確立的成本降低和密度提高的速度延續(xù)到下一個(gè)十年期。
采用一項(xiàng)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)CMOS技術(shù)整合PCM概念、存儲(chǔ)單元結(jié)構(gòu)及陣列和芯片測試載具的方案已通過廣泛的評估和論證。128 Mb高密度相變存儲(chǔ)器原型經(jīng)過90 nm制程論證,測試表明性能和可靠性良好。根據(jù)目前已取得的制程整合結(jié)果和對PCM整合細(xì)節(jié)理解水平,下一個(gè)開發(fā)階段將是采用升級技術(shù)制造千兆位(Gbit)級別的PCM存儲(chǔ)器。
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