RS Components welcomes Cypress Semper NOR flash
For mission critical applications and functional safety compliant devices, RS Components now offers Cypress Semiconductor’s Semper NOR flash memory products.
According to the distributor, Semper NOR flash memory is now in production and is designed to support automotive, communication and industrial applications. Semper achieves the ISO 26262 automotive functional safety standard for electronics in vehicles and is compliant with IEC 61508 for industrial applications. RS Components says that Semper is the industry’s first NOR flash memory to be Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) -B compliant and ASIL-D ready.
Semper NOR flash addresses the requirements for increased configuration and boot code data storage and quick access of SoCs and FPGAs powering 5G radios and base stations. Semper NOR flash has densities up to 4Gbit and JEDEC xSPI compatible interfaces, extending the bandwidth up to 400Mbytes per second.
Semper NOR flash offers densities from 256Mbit up to 4Gbit and the 10-year longevity required for mission critical applications. Semper NOR devices are compatible with multiple SoCs and FPGAs.
Semper devices offer a range of low-pin-count serial interface options, including legacy SPI, DDR Quad SPI with data rates up to 102Mbytes per second and JEDEC xSPI compatible HyperBus and Octal interfaces with up to 400Mbytes per second data rates. Using XIP (eXecute In Place), programs can execute directly from flash memory, allowing high-data-rate Quad SPI transactions to exceed the performance of parallel or asynchronous NOR devices.
Cypress’ EnduraFlex architecture allows system designers to customise Semper devices to suit specific applications, defining partitions to provide high memory endurance of up to 2.5 million cycles or long data retention of up to 25 years.
Semper supports SafeBoot, to detect device initialisation failures and configuration corruption. ECC (single error correction and double error detection) is supported on the memory array, with cyclical redundancy check (CRC) protection for both interface and data.
Semper NOR flash memories are AEC-Q100 qualified, and proven at temperatures from -40 to +125 degrees C. Operating voltage is 3.0 or 1.8V.
Packaging options include 24-contact BGA, 8-contact WSON and 16-pin SOIC.
Cypress Semper NOR flash memory products are now available from RS in the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions.
