Serial NAND

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Move Your Design Beyond SPI NOR

Our Serial NAND Flash is a lower-cost, higher-density alternative to serial peripheral interface (SPI) NOR solutions. It can help improve performance, increase density, eliminate a controller or card slot, and simplify your BOM.

 
 

Serial NAND Solutions Give You More for Less

“Embedded applications” has become an umbrella term for some of the most compelling devices available, including intelligent or interactive toys, books, and games; Web-enabled printers and computer peripherals; and backward-compatible WiMAX boxes. In the past, these embedded designs relied on serial peripheral interface (SPI) NOR Flash for code shadowing, data storage, or storing BIOS and firmware. But as embedded applications continue to evolve, they’ll require more density from their serial memory solution than NOR can offer.

With four times or more the density of SPI NOR, Serial NAND is a great alternative to NOR for many embedded designs. And since Serial NAND has the lowest cost-per-megabit of any serial Flash solution, it’s also a great way to lower your BOM cost.


Serial NAND Part Catalog and Documentation


The Serial Peripheral Interface
Micron’s Serial NAND Flash memory is compatible with the widely used, 4-signal SPI standard. Because of its compatibility with a well known, de facto standard, Serial NAND can replace more expensive and far less dense SPI NOR—and even parallel NOR— in many applications. The SPI provides serial clock, serial data-in, serial data-out, and chip select pins.

  • Lower Cost-Per-Megabit With its smaller architecture, Serial NAND Flash is simply less expensive than SPI NOR options
  • Greater Density Than SPI NOR Starting at 1Gb, Serial NAND can offer four times or more the density of serial NOR
  • Error Correction On-chip error correction code (ECC) makes implementing Serial NAND easy and enables a greater range of potential applications
  • Faster Write Performance Serial NAND offers better write performance than NOR Flash

Optimize Your Design With NAND Flash Software
Optimize your design and ease your development process with our NAND software offerings. We’ve partnered with third-party vendors like HCC Embedded and CMX Systems to offer Serial NAND drivers and complete OS systems to help you get the most out of our memory

Learn more about NAND Software