Micron Technical Notes Aid Board Bring-Up

You might not expect more than a datasheet from a memory company, but Micron has many useful technical notes for both hardware and software development.  Many are especially helpful for bringing up new hardware.    Below are some examples:

Software development

• Initialization Sequence for DDR SDRAM
• NAND Flash Performance Increase
• Wear-Leveling Techniques in NAND Flash Devices
• Enabling a Flash Memory Device into the Linux MTD
• Bad Block Management in NAND Flash Memory

Hardware design

• Calculating DDR Memory System Power
• Bypass Capacitor Selection for High-Speed Designs

General/Introductory

• NAND Flash 101 - An Introduction to NAND Flash and How to Design It In to Your Next Product
• Understanding Signal Integrity
• Evaluating Tools that Measure Storage Device Performance

There are many more notes for specific technologies and device families.

• Booting from Embedded MMC
• Boot-from-NAND Using Micron®  MT29F1G08ABB NAND Flash with the Texas Instruments™ (TI) OMAP2420 Processor

Micron also has software device drivers, example code, and Linux patches to use with its memory.

• BeagleBoard SPI NAND MTD for Linux 2.6.33
• NAND Hamming Code Software