Micron's XTRMFlash(TM) Memory Breaks Through NOR Flash Speed Limits to Power Next-Gen, Instant-On Applications
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Winbond Electronics First to Sign License Agreement to Develop XTRMFlash-
Compatible Memory Devices
BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 20, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Micron Technology, Inc.
(NASDAQ:MU), today announced XTRMFlash(TM) memory, a faster NOR flash solution
designed to revolutionize the way the electronics industry develops systems to
meet the demand for "instant-on" performance and fast system responsiveness in
automotive, industrial and consumer applications.
Utilizing its new, low pin count interface that uses as little as 11 active
signals, Micron's XTRMFlash memory outperforms other industry NOR Flash while
also significantly reducing pin counts by as much as 75 percent from those found
in Parallel NOR flash available in the market today. XTRMFlash memory provides
system designers the ideal and fastest possible direct code execution NOR flash
memory solution available to enable high-performance, yet small form-factor
designs.
"Micron is committed to continued innovation in NOR flash memory," said Richard
De Caro, director of NOR Flash for Micron's Embedded Business Unit. "We worked
closely with our ecosystem partners and customers to understand their next-
generation requirements for high-performance memory, and we have developed
XTRMFlash memory as a result. XTRMFlash memory and the XTRMFlash interface have
the potential to dramatically change the paradigm of the existing memory
landscape by enabling a new category of high-performance and low pin count
memory devices that can also extend beyond NOR Flash."
Micron fully intends for XTRMFlash memory and the interface to become widely
adopted open standards, and as a testament to that effort and the XTRMFlash
memory value proposition, flash memory provider Winbond Electronics has signed a
license agreement to develop XTRMFlash-compatible solutions.
"Winbond is excited to join Micron with development of XTRMFlash-compatible
solutions," stated Syed S. Hussain, director Flash Memory Marketing for Winbond
Electronics Corporation America. "With Winbond providing compatible XTRMFlash
solutions, customers will have the confidence and peace-of-mind to design-in
XTRMFlash and support the new interface."
Performance that matters
Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) NOR flash is used in a wide array of
applications for boot code, program code, and data storage. Micron recognized
the need for XTRMFlash memory to maintain backward compatibility to SPI NOR
flash so that customers can upgrade their designs with relative ease. However,
with random access times as fast as 83 nanoseconds (ns) and sequential byte
reads as fast as 2.5ns, XTRMFlash memory offers dramatically better performance
compared to traditional SPI and Quad-SPI NOR flash. Sustained read throughputs
of 400 megabytes per second (MB/s) enables an entire 1-gigabit (Gb) XTRMFlash
device to be read in a mere 0.3 seconds. With XTRMFlash memory's direct execute-
in-place (XIP) operation and low pin count interface, valuable board space can
be saved and the need for code shadowing can be eliminated.
"Micron XTRMFlash memory combines improved system responsiveness and reduced
system cost, which is beneficial to applications requiring reliable fast starts
and quick response across market segments, including the fast-growing Internet
of Things space," said Steve Tateosian, director of Microcontroller Platforms
for Freescale's Microcontroller group. "Freescale is again leading the way in
bringing such innovations to our customers. We are already delivering built-in
support for XTRMFlash memory in our Kinetis K8x ARM(®) Cortex(®)-M4
microcontroller series and expect this to be used in a number of our next-
generation microcontrollers as well."
The Power of Partnerships
Micron is committed to enabling ecosystem support and multi-sourcing of
XTRMFlash memory and the XTRMFlash interface through collaboration with chipset
and memory solution vendors. In order to simplify system design and speed time-
to-market, Micron has engaged with leading controller IP vendors Cadence Design
Systems and Synopsis. Both companies have committed to support the high-
performance and low pin count XTRMFlash interface as part of their controller IP
portfolio. Cadence's Quad SPI IP is available now, while its Octal SPI IP, which
supports the XTRMFlash interface, is in early customer engagements. Synopsys'
DesignWare(®) Synchronous Serial Interface IP, leveraging multi-lane (dual,
quad, and octal) SPI for higher data-rate transfers, is available now.
"There is a growing demand for high-bandwidth NOR flash for applications with
smaller storage size requirements," said Lou Ternullo, memory interface IP
product line director for Cadence Design Systems, Inc. "We sell our Quad SPI IP
to enable use of boot storage in enterprise and consumer applications, and are
engaged with early customers to deploy our Octal SPI IP for low-power IoT
devices."
"We collaborated closely with Micron to ensure seamless operation between
Micron's XTRMFlash memory and Synopsys' DesignWare Synchronous Serial Interface
IP," said Ed Bard, senior director of marketing, solutions group at Synopsys.
"As a result, designers are already accelerating their time-to-market by
integrating the silicon-proven DesignWare Synchronous Serial Interface IP into
SoCs that implement the XTRMFlash memory in applications that require instant-on
performance."
Micron's XTRMFlash product family offers a number of voltage, package, and
density options in both industrial and automotive temperature grades. XTRMFlash
memory densities range from 128 megabits (Mb) to 2Gb, and initial samples are
available now.
About Micron:
Micron Technology, Inc. is a global leader in advanced semiconductor memory
systems. Micron's broad portfolio of high-performance technologies-including
DRAM, NAND and NOR Flash-is the basis for solid state drives, modules, multichip
packages and other system solutions. Backed by more than 35 years of technology
leadership, Micron's memory solutions portfolio enables the world's most
innovative computing, consumer, enterprise storage, networking, mobile, embedded
and automotive applications. Micron's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ under
the MU symbol. To learn more about Micron Technology, Inc., visit
www.micron.com.
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