The wire between the flash die and the controller has quietly become the thing that bounds SSD throughput. A tour of ONFI and Toggle Mode, the climb from asynchronous SDR to 3600 MT/s NV-DDR3, what read/write training actually does, and why signal integrity now dictates how many dies you can hang off a channel.
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NAND Interfaces: ONFI, Toggle, and the Speed Problem