Date: 08/09/2008

Atmel's low power 1.8V 8-Megabit serial flash.

Atmel Corporation announced launch of its new AT25DF081, an 8-megabit Serial Flash device which is capable of operating at 1.8-volts.

The devices can be used to store both program code and data in battery-powered, portable consumer products such as personal media players (PMPs) and smart phones. The device is very useful as a boot and code shadowing Flash memory, as it gives a very high read performance from the Serial Flash to keep the applications' power-up boot time as short as possible.

The device has following features,

It operates with 66MHz frequency
The complete system operates at a unified 1.8 volts
This device can operate at the same voltage as the ASIC or processor/controller, there is no need for level shifters on control and data lines.

Packages: 8-lead SOIC,
8-contact, Ultra Thin DFN (UDFN),
11-ball dBGA (WLCSP).

Price: $0.66 in 10K quantities of SOIC device
$0.70 in 10K quantities of (UDFN) device
$0.83 in 10K quantities of dBGA (WLCSP) package device

For further details visit www.atmel.com