ToshibaReviews

(Source: IM Flash Technologies)

Straight from Electronic News: “Toshiba Corp. today said it has brought logical block addressing (LBA) to NAND flash memory in an effort to speed time to market, simplify design and eliminate the need for the host to handle NAND management functions.”

This new technology will benefit consumer devices such as digital audio players and personal media players. Samples of these devices are out this August.

If you haven’t the slightest clue about LBA NAND, Toshiba explained that “NAND flash memory currently uses the physical address access method that defines each physical page of a memory, from the chip to the block, to the page and down to the cell. The logical address access method of LBA assigns each cell a unique address that is not geometry dependent.”