Spansion and Analog Devices Rev Up Automotive Storage Capacity
Spansion and Analog Devices Rev Up Automotive Storage Capacity
Spansion and Analog Devices have come together to provide small form factor processor and flash memory solution for automotive applications.
Spansion has announced that Analog Devices Inc. is combining Spansion Known Good Die (KGD) Flash memory with its Blackfin processor in a multi-chip module (MCM). The module is developed for products supporting the automotive market. The new solution delivers the storage capacity and performance required to enable reliable, fast boot-up and data storage for feature-rich radio, driver assistance, telematics and navigation systems. "Combining Spansion Flash Memory with the power and performance of Analog Devices’ Blackfin will enable customers to bring added value and innovation to in-cabin automotive electronics systems, while reducing design cost and accelerating time-to-market.”, says Sylvia Summers, executive vice president of the Embedded Memory Division for Spansion.
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This solution claims to deliver the added storage capacity that automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers need to enable the innovation that consumers want in their car audio, telematics and navigation systems.
Designed for use as a host or system controller, the new Blackfin ADSP-BF539F combines either 4 Mb or 8 Mb of Spansion Flash Memory with the Blackfin ADSP-BF539 in a single package. Designed specifically for the automotive market, the ADSP-BF539F devices are 500 MHz processors and are supported by INTEGRITY Real-Time Operating System from Green Hills Software. Both the combinations can execute a full range of real-time signal processing, vehicle network stacks, diagnostics code and software download functions with ease.
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