STMicroelectronics' VFBGA55 version of its 256-Mbit 'Small Page' NAND Flash memory chip is now in volume production. This tiny 8x10 mm ball grid array package will allow manufacturers to use a significant amount of memory in portable equipment such as camera phones and smartphones, low cost digital cameras, PDAs and USB camera sticks, and in other products where board space is limited, says ST.
The 1 mm thick package maintains ball-out compatibility with other NAND products, but will save around 20% of board space in typical applications. The NAND256 is part of ST's NAND Flash portfolio, which includes 128 Mbit, 256 Mbit, 512 Mbit and 1 Gbit devices, operating on either 1,8 V or 3,0 V power supplies.
It provides ultra-fast data throughput and erase capability, coupled with the low power programming and low voltage operation. The memory is organised into 2048 nominal 16-Kbyte blocks, each of which is divided into pages of 512-bytes, plus 16 spare bytes per page.
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