Date: 16/10/2009

New SD3.0 family of host controller IPs from Arasan

Arasan has introduced the Secure Digital eXtended Capacity (SDXC) / SDIO 3.0 / eMMC 4.4 Host Controller IP. This IP is compliant with the latest SD Physical Layer Specification v3.0, Part E1 SDIO 3.0 specification and JEDEC's eMMC 4.4 specification.

"Arasan is the first IP provider to integrate three of the highest performance memory specifications available today into a single, high-quality IP core," said Prakash Kamath, Vice-President of Engineering at Arasan. "Designers building consumer and mobile electronics now can optimize their memory interface to meet their performance, security and expanding application requirements of their new platforms."

"SoC designers have been looking for a standard, scalable solution to future proof their systems' ever growing need for memory and high-performance I/O," said Somnath Viswanath, Product Marketing Manager at Arasan. "By integrating Arasan's SDXC/SDIO3.0/eMMC4.4 Controller IP, designers can be the first to offer innovative platform solutions with sufficient performance for the most demanding applications - today and in the future".

Arasan's SDXC/SDIO/eMMC controller has native support for all SDXC/SDIO/eMMC commands and it supports all of the SD, SDHC, SDXC, SDIO, MMC, and card formats.

This IP has built-in hardware support for multiple data protection schemes such as mechanical switch-based, password, temporary or permanent write protection. This controller IP also supports the Replay Protected Memory Block feature of eMMC 4.4.
Designers can do away from using a boot-code storing NOR flash memory chip due to this IP's ability to boot directly for embedded eMMC devices.

For more details visit www.arasan.com

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