its a presentation on the types and utilities of Flash drives/Pen drives

1. FLASH MEMORY A PRESENTATION FOR IT FOR MANAGEMENT UNDER GUIDANCE OF Prof. SANJAY GUPTA

3. Non-volatile = that can retain information even when not powered

4. There are two main types of Flash Memory :

5. NOR Flash

6. NAND Flash

7. Flash Memory stores information in an array of floating gates transistors

8. Flash transistors are similar to standard MOS transistors except that they have two gates instead of just one :

9. On top is the control gate

11. Invented By A professor at Tohoku University Invented in 1984 How did the word flash emerge First launch by Intel Fujio Masuoka

13. Images: flash memory

14. Working of Flash Memory

16. USB Flash Memory

17. Smart Media Cards

18. Compact Flash

20. Flash memory as a replacement for hard drives.

21. Flash memory is very useful in a variety of applications including. Memory Sticks PCMCIA memory cards MP3 Players

23. Cost

24. Reliability

25. Size

27. Block erasure

29. Kingston