Some Tesla EV's Control Screens Went Dark as Excessive Logging killed the eMMC Flash

in embedded •  5 years ago 


Despite wear-leveling techniques, eMMC flash memories tend to wear out over time as they have limited write cycles. So we've seen in the past the importance of wear estimation in eMMC flash chips, and methods to limit write operation such as disabling logging when possible or write the log to RAM with log2ram in order to extend the life of flash-based storage devices.

My Xiaomi A1 smartphone basically became unusable after a little over a year due to eMMC flash issues, but that was not that big of an issue since I could just get another phone

The full article can be found @ https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/10/19/tesla-emmc-flash-logging-control-screen-dead/

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