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A hard drive or solid state drive (SSD) that resides outside the computer's case, typically connecting via USB or eSATA. A USB flash drive is also external storage. See portable drive and USB drive.

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The AXI EMC (Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA®) Advanced extensible Interface (AXI) External memory controller) provides the control interface for external synchronous, asynchronous ...

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Introduction This paper describes some of the challenges facing designers in implementing the interfaces between ASICs and today's high performance memory devices. Specifically it addresses the ...