SUNNYVALE, Calif.-- Silicon Storage Technology Inc. (SST) here today announced it has entered the serial-based flash-memory chip market by rolling out a new product family for low-power applications.
Geared for low-power, small-foot-print applications in the automotive, consumer, industrial, and other sectors, SST's so-called serial peripheral interface (SPI) family of chips includes three models: the SST45VF512, a 512-Kbit device; the SST45VF010, a 1-Mbit part, and the SST45VF020, a 2-Mbit IC.
The serial-flash memory products from SST uses a three-wire interface, thereby resulting in a lower pin-count device. As a result, the chips are ideal in products such as small disk drives, smart cards, MP3 players, cordless telephones, said Mike Briner, vice president of the Application Specific Products Group at SST.
All three products are based on SST's proprietary, high-performance flash technology, dubbed SuperFlash. SST's serial flash parts utilize an industry standard SPI protocol. The programmable devices also have some advantages over competitive products in the market.
When compared to other nonvolatile memory solutions, such as parallel EEPROMs, SST's serial flash products use fewer wires to transfer data to and from a system CPU, thereby creating an overall savings in board space, power consumption, and cost, the company said.
The chips, which boasts some 100,000 cycles of endurance, also features 2.7/3.6-volt read and write operations.
The 512-Kbit part is $0.85, the 1-Mbit device is $1.15, and the 2-Mbit chip is $1.50. All products come in 8-pin SOIC packages.
The 1-Mbit part is sampling, while the 512-Kbit chip will begin sample in December. The 2-Mbit device will begin sampling in March of 2001.
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