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The two fundamental requirements of every mobile device is speed and power, with the biggest challenge being that both are inversely proportional to each other. One simply cannot have both, because with higher speed comes higher power consumption. With the ever increasing demand for higher resolution graphics and media to enrich the user experience, there has been a significant addition to data processing that requires high speed data transfers. Even though the devices are capable of capturing and playing back high quality media, the storage unit is not fast enough to match the required transfer speeds. This is an out of sync combination and one of the biggest challenges for mobile designs. The problem here is that, a memory system is required to be capable enough to perform read write operations at high speed without adding any significant numbers to power consumption.