SST Announces Automotive Grade 1 Qualification of Embedded SuperFlash® Memory on UMC’s 55 nm Platform
January 02 2019 - 8:09AM
Automotive applications are increasingly depending on
microcontrollers (MCUs) with embedded flash memory to ensure the
high performance and reliability required for safety-critical and
infotainment applications. To extend the availability of these
solutions, Microchip Technology Inc.
(Nasdaq:
MCHP) subsidiary
Silicon Storage
Technology (SST) today announced that its high-speed
embedded SuperFlash® technology is qualified to Automotive
Electronics Council’s AEC-Q100 Grade 1 on United Microelectronics
Corporation’s
(NYSE: UMC; TWSE: 2303) 55 nm
platform.
SST’s embedded SuperFlash technology offers low power, high
reliability, superior data retention and endurance across broad
markets. For example, in automotive applications, SuperFlash
technology provides IC designers with a cost-effective, embedded
flash solution that meets high speed and dependability
requirements. As electronic content in vehicles continues to rise,
the technology’s fast access time, power efficiency and fast erase
speeds are crucial for automotive applications.
“As part of the AEC-Q100 Grade 1 qualification on UMC’s 55 nm
platform, SST’s SuperFlash technology completed a very high bar in
endurance testing, including 700,000 program/erase cycles and 20
years of data retention,” said Mark Reiten, vice president of SST,
a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microchip. “The partnership with UMC
will enable automotive customers who require low-power,
high-endurance embedded flash to keep their production costs down
by using the 55 nm platform.”
“Since qualifying SST's SuperFlash technology on UMC’s 55 nm in
2015, we have engaged with multiple customers for a variety of end
market applications,” said Steven Liu, vice president of Corporate
Marketing Division at UMC. “With this latest milestone to
successfully achieve automotive-grade qualification, UMC customers
can confidently utilize SST 55 nm SuperFlash technology for their
automotive IC designs manufactured in UMC’s fabs, which have all
been IATF-16949 certified to meet stringent automotive quality
production standards.”
Contact SST for more information on SST’s extensive custom
library of off-the-shelf IP blocks optimized for
automotive/secure/smartcard System-on-Chips (SoCs).
For more information on SST's patented and proprietary
SuperFlash NOR flash technology, visit
www.sst.com/technology/SuperFlash-Overview.
About Silicon Storage Technology (SST)Microchip
Technology’s SST subsidiary is a leading provider of embedded flash
technology. SST develops, designs, licenses and markets a
diversified range of proprietary and patented SuperFlash memory
technology solutions for the consumer, industrial, automotive and
Internet of Things (IoT) markets. SST was founded in 1989, went
public in 1995, and was acquired by Microchip in April 2010. SST is
now a wholly owned subsidiary of Microchip, and is headquartered in
San Jose, Calif. For more information, visit the SST Web site at
www.sst.com.
About Microchip TechnologyMicrochip Technology
Inc. is a leading provider of microcontroller, analog, FPGA,
connectivity and power management semiconductors. Its easy-to-use
development tools and comprehensive product portfolio enable
customers to create optimal designs which reduce risk while
lowering total system cost and time to market. The company’s
solutions serve more than 130,000 customers across the industrial,
automotive, consumer, aerospace and defense, communications and
computing markets. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Microchip
offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery
and quality. For more information, visit the Microchip website at
www.microchip.com.
Note: The SST name, the SST logo and SuperFlash are
registered trademarks of Microchip Technology Inc. and Silicon
Storage Technology, Inc., as applicable, in the USA and other
countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property
of their respective companies.
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