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New Spansion Flash Memory Family Brings Robust Security, Leading Performance to Today's Mainstream Mobile Designs
High-Density Products Offer Leading Performance with Future
Migration Path to MirrorBit(TM) Technology
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—April 12, 2004—
Spansion today announced that designers of mainstream mobile
phones and portable electronics gained new weapons against malicious
hackers, phone thieves and other high-tech criminals with the
introduction of the Spansion(TM) S29PL family of Flash memory
products. These 128-, 64- and 32-megabit devices, the industry's
fastest for 3-volt wireless systems, use market-leading 110-nanometer
floating gate technology to provide the price-performance demanded for
today's mainstream mobile product designs. Spansion Flash memory
products are manufactured by Spansion and available from AMD
(NYSE:AMD) and Fujitsu (TSE:6702).
Advanced Sector Protection, available throughout the Spansion
S29PL family, is the industry's most robust Flash security feature set
and the only one to feature password protection for everyday consumer
products. Multiple layers of security help protect against tampering
with unique identification numbers, access settings and other
protected information while fending off viruses, worms and other
network attacks.
"Software-only security schemes are often not enough to protect
our customers' critical program code and sensitive configuration
information against sophisticated hardware-based attacks," said
Michael Van Buskirk, Chief Technology Officer for Spansion. "Advanced
Sector Protection, a hardware-based security system now standard on
most Spansion products at the 110-nanometer node, transforms Spansion
Flash memory into a 'fortress on a circuit board' that helps prevent
unauthorized users from altering or erasing protected program code and
configuration information."
"The S29PL family delivers price-performance leadership by
combining our strong tradition of cost reduction with the high
performance and advanced security features once required by only the
most advanced mobile designs," said Amir Mashkoori, group vice
president and general manager of Spansion's Wireless Business Unit.
"We have sampled thousands of units to our customers, who can see
immediate system-level improvement over existing designs. We expect
this trend to continue as future generations of this product family
exploit our density-doubling MirrorBit technology."
Product Details
The Spansion S29PL family features the following common
specifications:
-- 55 ns random read times and 20 ns intra-page read times
provide up to 95 megabytes/second (MB/s) read throughput
within the eight-word page and 78 MB/s sustained sequential
read throughput across the device.
-- Simultaneous read-write architecture provides flexibility and
streamlines coding for execute-in-place (XIP) applications.
-- Advanced Sector Protection, a layered security system
featuring a 64-bit password that guards against hackers,
tuners, viruses and even erroneous code.
-- Available multi-chip package (MCP)-compatible pinout
simplifies circuit board layout by providing a predefined,
common footprint for standalone and stacked-die products.
-- Future migration paths to density-doubling MirrorBit
technology exist to again boost price-performance.
The Spansion S29PL product family contains two distinct
128-megabit products: the standard Spansion S29PL127J and the
specialized Spansion S29PL129J. The innovative S29PL129J product
features dual "chip-enable" inputs that enable designers to use a
single-chip 128-megabit solution on platforms otherwise limited to
addressing 64 megabits of memory. The product provides the same
industry-leading performance as the standard Spansion S29PL127J
product while replacing two separate 64-megabit devices to save board
space and cost.
Pricing and Product Schedule
The Spansion S29PL product family is in volume production of 128-
and 64-megabit products, with 32-megabit products to follow. The
128-megabit, 64-megabit and 32-megabit devices are priced at $12.00,
$7.00 and $4.00 each, respectively, in quantities of 10,000.
About Spansion(TM) Flash Memory Products
Spansion(TM) Flash memory products encompass a broad spectrum of
densities and features to support a wide range of markets. Spansion
Flash memory customers represent leaders in the wireless, cellular,
automotive, networking, telecommunications and consumer electronics
markets. There are a variety of Spansion Flash memory products, such
as devices based on the innovative MirrorBit(TM) technology; the
award-winning simultaneous read-write (SRW) product family; super
low-voltage 1.8-volt Flash memory devices; and burst- and page-mode
devices. Information about Spansion Flash memory solutions is
available at http://www.spansion.com/overview.
Spansion was formed by the integration of AMD's and Fujitsu's
Flash memory operations in 2003. It is the largest NOR Flash memory
company in the world. Spansion Flash memory solutions are available
worldwide from AMD (NYSE:AMD) and Fujitsu (TSE:6702).
Spansion, the Spansion logo, FASL, MirrorBit, and combinations
thereof, are trademarks of FASL LLC. AMD is a trademark of Advanced
Micro Devices, Inc. Other company and product names used in this
publication are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks
of their respective companies.
Contact:
Spansion Memory Products Public Relations
Eric DeRitis, 408-749-2919
email: eric.deritis@spansion.com
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