Date: 02/02/2010

Arasan's complete line of Memory Card Controller IP cores and software stacks

Arasan has made available complete portfolio of Memory Card Controller IP cores and corresponding software stacks, where the card controller IP support the high performance card formats such as Secure Digital (SD / SDIO 3.0), Multimedia Card (e.MMC 4.4), Memory Stick (MSPro, MSPro-Duo), CompactFlash (CF+) and Picture Card (xD) card formats.

Arasan offers complete range of Memory Card controllers IP cores in different combinations.

Arasan says that it provides a Total IP Solution for each of these cores comprising of Digital IP, verification IP, Software stacks and Hardware Development kits backed by customer support.

"System designers seek an optimal balance between the number of card formats to support versus the implementation costs," said Prakash Kamath, Vice-President of Engineering at Arasan. "Now, with the availability of Arasan's Memory Card Controller family of IP, they can select the right combination of card controller IP suitable for their system design and usage model."

Commenting on the card controller software stacks that are part of the Total Solutions, Atul Garg, Director of Software Engineering at Arasan said, "A well architected memory controller software stack is crucial to realizing the performance and capacity benefits of these memory cards. We have developed these software stacks based on our in-depth understanding of the nuances of these memory interfaces and have optimized the stacks to ease porting to alternate OS and processor platforms."

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