Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Cypress Semiconductor | Subject: West Bridge Astoria
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 11 December 2007
West Bridge controller cuts Flash media
costs
Controller supports up to 16 MLC NAND Flash devices, which cost approximately three times less than single-level cell NAND Flash devices for the same storage density.
Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a new West Bridge peripheral controller with multilevel cell (MLC) NAND Flash support that enables designers to use lowest-cost, highest-density Flash storage The West Bridge Astoria controller supports up to 16 MLC NAND Flash devices, which cost approximately three times less than single-level cell (SLC) NAND Flash devices for the same storage density
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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