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Product category: Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: QuickLogic | Subject: NAND boot solution
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 17 May 2007

Controller ousts NOR Flash from mobile
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Novel solution enables mobile processors to boot directly from managed NAND devices and memory cards, eliminating the need for NOR Flash.

QuickLogic has come up with a novel solution that enables the application processors in mobile products to boot directly from managed NAND devices and memory cards, eliminating the need for NOR Flash and thus reducing BOM cost and PCB area The solution is a unique combination of QuickLogic's proven SDIO host controller and additional intellectual property that performs the boot sequencing function, managed NAND is an emerging trend in Flash storage technology that integrates both NAND Flash memory and a controller device that handles the complexities of error correction (ECC) and other vendor-specific housekeeping operations associated with using the memory