Flash: the explosive world of serial Flash.(Semiconductor Highlight)

ECN-Electronic Component News, August, 2005 by De Caro, Richard

Since its inception in 1997, the serial Flash market has grown at an incredible rate, and it is rapidly becoming the Flash memory of choice in many applications once dominated by parallel NOR Flash. Developed initially for the nonvolatile data storage segment, serial Flash has since found its way into the much more lucrative and high volume code storage market.

As applications evolve, the code storage landscape continues to change, driving more and more applications away from traditional parallel Flash and towards code shadowing with serial Flash. Three very important factors are fueling this migration: the need to increase system performance beyond what execute-in-place (XiP) parallel Flash can accommodate, the need to reduce total system cost, and of course,...