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toast0yesterday at 9:13 PM2 repliesview on HN

Probably not what they want, but NOR flash is generally directly addressable, it's commonly used to replace mask roms.


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kimixatoday at 7:46 AM

And does so by being larger, with the only real difference being more area (and gates, and often then critical path length and thus speed) being spent on getting the signaling to the level where it can do word instead of page addressing. The actual flash cells themselves are functionally the same.

There's no fundamental difference in gate technology between the two, so a flash that is addressable to a finder granularity will always be larger than the coarser equivalent. That's the trade off.

bobmcnamarayesterday at 9:21 PM

NOR is usually limited to <30MHz, but if you always want to fetch an entire cacheline, and design the read port, you can fetch the entire cacheline at once so that's pretty neat.

I don't know if anyone has applied this to neutral networks.