In NAND flash document I could not find any terms referring to Sector.
I found blocks and pages in NAND flash. But In WindowCE FMD always reference
to sector address.

1. For example Sector Address =0x00000140 means which block and which page
in the block it is refering to.

My nand flash is only 64MB of 512Mbits x8 device. window CE NBoot debug
message shows total sector 56916. But the nand flash documentation tells
total 4096 blocks ,each blocks 32 page, each page is 512 bytes.

I could not corelate the sector with nand flash block and pages size. Can
anyone explain me what do you mean by sector address in FMD for windowCE.

Prosanta

Re: NAND Flash by TechNick

TechNick
Wed Oct 31 02:55:21 PDT 2007

On Oct 31, 9:31 am, prosanta langtha
<prosantalang...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> In NAND flash document I could not find any terms referring to Sector.
> I found blocks and pages in NAND flash. But In WindowCE FMD always reference
> to sector address.
>
> 1. For example Sector Address =0x00000140 means which block and which page
> in the block it is refering to.
>
> My nand flash is only 64MB of 512Mbits x8 device. window CE NBoot debug
> message shows total sector 56916. But the nand flash documentation tells
> total 4096 blocks ,each blocks 32 page, each page is 512 bytes.
>
> I could not corelate the sector with nand flash block and pages size. Can
> anyone explain me what do you mean by sector address in FMD for windowCE.
>
> Prosanta

If your device has only 1 sector per page then the sector address is
the same as your page address.
Certain devices has multiple sectors per page.


Re: NAND Flash by Gary

Gary
Tue Nov 06 09:46:37 PST 2007

Hi Prosanta,
The FAL (upper layer of block driver, with FMD as the lower layer) was
intended for 512B page NAND.
512B is the classic sector size for a file system and that is the sector
size refered to.
For the FAL to operate on NOR, it simulates NAND page layout with a 512B
data sector, followed by a smaller info area (similar to spare area).

A 2KB page NAND device could hold 4 sectors of data, but the FAL wasn't
really targetted for these larger page NAND devices.

Regards,
Gary

"TechNick" <nickmachielse@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1193824521.002108.255360@o3g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> On Oct 31, 9:31 am, prosanta langtha
> <prosantalang...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> In NAND flash document I could not find any terms referring to Sector.
>> I found blocks and pages in NAND flash. But In WindowCE FMD always
>> reference
>> to sector address.
>>
>> 1. For example Sector Address =0x00000140 means which block and which
>> page
>> in the block it is refering to.
>>
>> My nand flash is only 64MB of 512Mbits x8 device. window CE NBoot debug
>> message shows total sector 56916. But the nand flash documentation tells
>> total 4096 blocks ,each blocks 32 page, each page is 512 bytes.
>>
>> I could not corelate the sector with nand flash block and pages size.
>> Can
>> anyone explain me what do you mean by sector address in FMD for windowCE.
>>
>> Prosanta
>
> If your device has only 1 sector per page then the sector address is
> the same as your page address.
> Certain devices has multiple sectors per page.
>