Parallel NAND Flash User Guide

FORESEE has appropriate solutions for boosting the operations of embedded applications. Our huge experience in the field of developing flash memory solutions is providing the best solutions that meet the dynamic industry trends. From developing serial NOR fixtures to parallel NAND flash fixtures, we have come a long way to providing long-lasting solutions and user guidelines. FORESEE flash products are influencing many sectors such as electronics systems, medical devices, and industrial systems, used particularly for massive data processing and storing tasks. Users can end up choosing the appropriate flash fixture with a deep understanding of the technologies, memory requirements, system architecture, data consistency, and read/write cycle performance.

What exactly is NAND Flash?

It is a memory chip that is launched to provide non-volatile storage features to embedded systems. This comes with a tough architecture to tolerate the harsh working conditions. These chips usually come in the size of a fingernail and can easily get embedded into small systems. Smartphones are typical examples in our daily life constituting the NAND flash for managing videos, audio, and pictures. It is almost everywhere in our SD cards, SSDs, smart TVs, PCs, advertising panels, announcement systems, and IoT. It is in every system that requires continuous data transmission and data retaining.

Parallel NAND Flash Basic Guidelines

Parallel NAND Flash is a type of NAND Flash memory that is organized into multiple parallel banks, rather than a single serial bank. This allows for much higher data throughput than other memory devices, making it ideal for applications that require high data bandwidth. This memory is utilizing the 8-bit multiplexed bus to provide much faster data transferring, addressing, and processing. The high-end features determine the quality, sustainability, and innovativeness of any memory device. Users should prefer a memory device that has smart features that match the advanced application criterion. The numbers of read/write cycles and endurance capabilities dictate the NAND types such as SLC, and MLC. NAND types vary in block size and size depending on the architecture of a NAND flash.

Look for the Following Features:

Compiling the Current Industry Standards

FORESEE parallel NAND fixture is built on the current market standards and offers required memory capacity ranges for various enterprise systems. This chip draws 1.8VCC power for handling data operations. The five protocols such as CLE, ALE, CE#, RE#, and WE# are introduced to provide better control of signals thus this fixture maintains the signal integrity.

High Stability

FORESEE NAND products have a block size of 64 pages where each page is 2K bytes. Parallel NAND flash is offering higher density, stability, and compatibility, for entertainment systems, TVs, industrial IPCs, Home IPCs, Cameras, GPON, speakers, memory cards, etc.

Innovative Technologies Results in Higher Throughput

These parallel NAND devices have features of ECC, wear leveling, command management, and low-power mode. ECC circuitry and wear leveling techniques extend the lifetime of NAND devices because these techniques handle the number of read/write cycles within memory blocks thus overcoming the drawbacks of limited read/write cycles in NAND.

Satisfying the Memory Needs of Distinct Sectors

Industry and consumer-grade NAND solutions are launched by FORESEE for satisfying the needs of different applications. The NAND product line exists in many versions like SLC NAND, Parallel NAND, SPI NAND, TLC NAND, etc. Each type offers significant features and engineers must select the type by comparing the impacts, tolerance, capacity, and transmission rate of these fixtures.

Quality Control Development

One should prefer the NAND products that are built on the values of quality control development. FORESEE solutions are giving the advantage of higher quality by utilizing resource-oriented DRAM resources for development, guaranteeing excellent stability and quality.

Reliable for Handling Big Data

NAND solutions that are developed by using in-house firmware are highly preferable. FORESEE NAND solutions are passed through strict comprehensive testing series to determine their reliability. These solutions are reliable enough to retain massive data for more than 10 years.

Key Parameters

· Memory Capacity: 1Gbit to 4Gbit

· Power supply:  1.8V to 3.3V

· Available in two types of international packaging: TFBGA-63 or TSOP-48

· Built to offer high endurance of up to 100K cycles

· Sequential Read speed up to 25µs

· Random Read: 25µs

· Low-power standby mode for maximum power efficiency

· Ability to manage and retain data for 10 years

· Industry-standard working temperature range: -40°C to 85°C

· Smart features: Unique ID, OTP, Write protect, Block protection, ECC, Wear leveling

Parallel NAND Vs Serial NOR

NAND memory fixtures are getting more advanced from single NAND to 3D NAND and it is enhancing the competitiveness in the market. NAND devices utilize different memory categories such as SLC, TLC, and MLC. The SLC version is extremely fastest and more robust than any other medium.

Parallel NAND fixtures boost the application performance by offering higher density and having a low number of pins as compared to serial NOR. The NAND fixtures are dependent on the controller for the data task management while parallel NOR is independent and provides easy-to-use criteria. Parallel NAND ensures the reliable storage of data and code and has faster P/E cycles. NOR also has a reliable storage facility with efficient data access time. NAND fixtures improve the reliability and functionality of any application with their high endurance and long data retention features.

Conclusion

NAND devices determine the performance of your system and parallel NAND has a great level of endurance to match the needs of industrial systems such as GPON, and IPCs. Parallel NAND chips operate directly and have  booting time thus these are accurate for process-intensive systems. Choosing an inappropriate memory device will degrade the device's performance. FORESEE is an industry brand of Longsys.Longsys is featuring various categories of NAND and is here to help you choose the right solution for your systems. We have a wide range of products that are used in a variety of applications, including digital cameras, camcorders, mobile phones, MP3 players, and USB flash drives.