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The MOCCA (MOst Creative Customer Award) special edition has been bestowed upon Ms. Luisa Fracassini, who is retiring from her “Sustainability & Open Innovation Manager” position at STMicroelectronics.

Throughout her tenure, Ms. Fracassini played a pivotal role in driving numerous joint innovative projects since the early days of NplusT.

Reflecting on this honor, Tamas Kerekes, President and CEO of NplusT, shared his sentiments:

As time flies by, it’s truly remarkable to look back on the journey. My collaboration with Luisa spans over three decades, predating the inception of NplusT. She was driving the burn-in operation at STMicroelectronics, I was working for an equipment building company. Luisa and I collaborated closely to define and implement pioneering burn-in strategies. Remarkably, these strategies continue to exhibit exceptional performance and efficiency even today. Upon founding NplusT, our collaboration flourished further, culminating in the successful execution of numerous projects. One standout example is the implementation of a centralized system for monitoring a few pieces of equipment within her reliability lab. Evolving over time, this initiative has grown to encompass hundreds of equipment across multiple labs, all seamlessly integrated into a sophisticated workflow management software. Luisa, your foresight, unwavering commitment to achieving results, and invaluable contributions have been instrumental in our growth and success.

Eng. Luisa Fracassini comments the award :

Time flies when you’re doing something engaging and living it with good companions on the journey. And so, just a few months into my retirement, I find myself reflecting on my life since I, a young electronic engineer full of enthusiasm and curiosity, joined ST. Back then, I was working in testing and burn-in, collaborating with an Italian company that was a cradle for many young talents. In particular, I formed a spontaneous bond with a Hungarian engineer—friendly, knowledgeable, calm, but determined. You’ve probably guessed it was Tamas Kerekes. We shared many things besides technology: rock music, knowledge of Hungary – which I traveled extensively by motorcycle – but most of all, a certain way of looking at the world of work, both present and future.
Time passed. I moved on from testing to creating, organizing, and managing four quality laboratories: Reliability, Metrology, ESD, and Design Validation, filled with expensive, diverse, and incompatible machines that were vital for qualifying new products. Meanwhile, the young Hungarian engineer and a valuable companion, Nicoletta Casini, embarked on a great challenge: to start their own company specializing in design and software solutions, N plus T. So, it was only natural to entrust them with the task of developing a powerful and flexible tool that would connect and make the laboratories’ vast array of machines remotely accessible, efficient, and more productive, thereby improving the output, quality, and reliability of the labs, while reducing time and costs. Thus, through work meetings, a rock album by Lokomotív, a glass of Tokaji, a visit to Narni, and a few pats on our four-legged friends, SIREN was born. It gradually became a powerful and reliable tool thanks to the close collaboration between Tamas, his skilled team, and those who worked with me and after me on the system.
When I shifted my professional focus to Sustainable Development and Open Innovation, my contacts with NplusT became less frequent, but not the respect and friendship with Nicoletta and Tamas. The announcement of the MoCCA Career award honors and moves me. It will be one of the precious memories I will carry with me forever.

NplusT’s technology was recently featured in a research publication and played a critical role in enabling precise data collection and testing. Using NanoCycler as core tool for acquiring real-device data during the entire NAND life cycle, Luo Zheng’s dissertation, titled “Research and Development of Efficient Testing Technology for Ultra-large Capacity 3D Flash Memory”, delves into enhancing the reliability and lifespan of 3D NAND flash memory.

Written under the guidance of Prof. Han Guojun at the Department of Electronic Information, Guangdong University of Technology, in Guangzhou, China, the research focuses on developing machine learning models to accurately predict flash memory lifespan. The work aims to optimize storage system performance by reducing the impact of noise on lifespan prediction accuracy.

The NplusT team extends their congratulations to Luo Zheng for earning the degree of Master of Electronic Information.

Tamas Kerekes, CEO and President of Nplust, was a speaker in the recent seminar held on December 14th at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Ferrara, alongside prominent names from the Storage industry and research. The presentation, titled “Make the NAND Work” is available at this link.

Nplust’s CTO Nicola Campanelli was a speaker at the recent Italian Mathematical Union conference Cryptography and Coding, held at University of Perugia’s Mathematics and Computer Science Department on September 21-22, 2023.

The presentation, titled “The Coding Theory in Flash Memory Applications” highlighted the theory’s importance in error correction, data degradation detection, and data loss prevention strategies when using high performance NAND memories. The presentation is available at this link.

Join us to witness how we help our customers build great storage devices!

We are excited to showcase our latest achievements in increasing performance, reliability and lifetime, while reducing power consumption of memory devices.

At NplusT, we provide state-of-the-art instrumentation and cutting-edge data analysis software that unlocks the full potential of flash and emerging non-volatile memory devices. Our solutions – optimized to shorten time-to-market – empower you to gain an in-depth view of device behavior, enabling data-driven technology improvement and optimal management algorithms.

See you at the FMS 2023 in Santa Clara (CA), Booth 758, 8-10 August!

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Leaders in flash memory management technology will provide comprehensive design, testing services to industrial, automotive, medical, and aerospace sectors.

HELSINKI, May 24, 2023 (Newswire.com) – Tuxera and NplusT, two leaders in flash memory management technology, announced a partnership to provide a novel suite of value-added services, from flash testing and characterization to advanced flash management software. The partnership is aimed at helping customers bring safety-critical and high-reliability products to market more quickly and at lower costs.

Based in Finland, Tuxera is an international leader in developing quality-assured software for flash management, file system management, and networking, powering billions of devices, cars, and public cloud platforms worldwide. NplusT, located in Italy and known for shortening development times for its customers, is a provider of the fastest and most affordable solutions for characterization, testing and reliability verification of NAND and other non-volatile memory devices.

Officials of the two companies described their new partnership as “the best of both worlds.”

“NplusT has great experience on the hardware side—how to do NAND characterization, how to help the customer design the device so that they can produce it quickly, and all the while removing some of the risks,” said Marko Finnig, Vice President of Product Management at Tuxera. “So then the question is, how do you actually manage the NAND? That’s where Tuxera comes in. We create the flash translation layer, software that manages the NAND, and the file system on top of it. This allows our customers to create cost-effective devices that are reliable. So you get the best of both worlds—you get the cost-effectiveness, but you also get the reliability.”

“Tuxera has great software for managing storage at a high level, independent of component management,” said Tamas Kerekes, President and CEO of NplusT. “What NplusT adds to Tuxera is low-level memory know-how, which is critical and important in two areas. There is the NAND chip itself, which requires very specific algorithms, which is one area of our expertise, coming from working with customers in the characterization. And the other is our knowledge of new memory technologies and characterization with semiconductor manufacturers.”

Kerekes said the partnership unites the strengths of his company and Tuxera to create something greater than the sum of its parts.

“This kind of strong cooperation between companies can create a much better product than what comes from trying to integrate two products from different companies,” Kerekes added. “We can do native integrations, which will deliver more performant and reliable results in the end.”

Tuxera and NplusT see the partnership as bringing benefits to both companies’ client bases, as it will introduce NplusT’s capabilities in flash memory testing to Tuxera’s broad spectrum of industry clients, and connect Tuxera’s flash controller and flash enablement software to the semiconductor manufacturers with whom NplusT works closely.

The partnership also will open the door to potential joint research and development efforts that can create solutions to better serve the needs of Tuxera’s and NplusT’s customers in the embedded market, the companies said.

Unlike traditional partnerships, the association between Tuxera and NplusT is not tied to the production of a specific product but instead is a comprehensive package of services that can be tailored to specific clients. Tuxera and NplusT encourage potential customers to contact them early in the product design phases in order to best leverage the companies’ full complement of skills.

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