Event Details

How Universal Flash Storage is Enabling Edge-AI in Automotive and Industrial Applications

Bruno Trematore, KIOXIA Europe (Speaking on Behalf of MIPI Alliance and JEDEC)

embedded world Conference
11 March | 4:30–5 p.m.

Born out of the mobile industry, JEDEC Universal Flash Storage (UFS) is becoming the de facto flash storage solution within next generation automotive architectures. UFS is also projected to be a key enabler for many upcoming industrial applications that demand the highest data bandwidths.

This session will start by explaining why UFS has seen such rapid adoption within the automotive market, driven by the industry’s need for an ultra-reliable flash memory solution that supports the fastest data transfer speeds and lowest latency. This introduction will also examine the synergies between automotive and industrial flash storage use cases, explaining how UFS will be a key enabler for many edge AI-enabled industrial use cases.

Next up, the session will dive into the technology that underpins UFS, focusing on how the MIPI M-PHY physical layer interface and MIPI UniPro link layer interface provide UFS’s interconnect layer. The session will explain how, in its most advanced release, UFS 4.1 leverages the most recent versions of these MIPI interfaces to double its interface bandwidth and enable up to ~4.2 GB/s for read and write traffic.