Adesto’s EcoXiP Supports New JEDEC Standards to Pave the Way for a New Era of Smart Devices and Edge Processing
November 13 2018 - 3:00AM
First Company to Ship Serial NOR Flash Devices
Supporting New Specifications for Non-Volatile Memory
ELECTRONICA – Adesto
Technologies (NASDAQ: IOTS), a leading provider of innovative
application-specific semiconductors for the IoT era, announced it
has shipped the first serial NOR flash devices supporting the new
xSPI standard (JESD251 and JESD251-1), Serial Flash Reset Signaling
Protocol (JESD252) and the latest version of the SFDP standard
(JESD216C). Adesto’s EcoXiP™ eXecute-in-Place (XiP) non-volatile
memory (NVM) fully supports these specifications, which were
recently released by microelectronics standards body JEDEC. These
standards make it easier for system designers to reap the benefits
of EcoXiP in their designs and deliver smarter, more efficient and
user-friendly devices.
Today, many emerging Internet of Things (IoT) and high-end
microcontroller (MCU) designs need more program memory and data
processing storage than can be implemented economically on-chip
using embedded flash or SRAM. The new standards make it simpler for
the industry to adopt NVM devices that use the Octal Serial
Peripheral Interface (SPI), such as Adesto’s EcoXiP, which delivers
the higher performance and storage space needed. EcoXiP eliminates
the need for expensive on-chip embedded flash, and it hits the
sweet spot for power, system cost and performance, with
significantly lower power consumption compared to other Octal
devices and dramatically higher performance versus Quad SPI
devices.
“NXP architected crossover processors with no on-board flash and
provided an Octal interface to optimize off-chip NVM performance.
This allows NXP to deliver a class of microcontrollers that boost
processing performance and increase power efficiency at a very
competitive price point,” said Joe Yu, GM of Low-Power MPUs at NXP
Semiconductors. “Ultimately this helps designers add more features
to their products and improve the consumer experience. A low-power
external memory device, such as Adesto’s EcoXIP, is a complementary
device for our i.MX RT series.”
The new xSPI (expanded SPI) standard establishes hardware
guidelines to enable designers to easily add high-throughput Octal
and Quad devices to their systems. The Serial Flash Reset Signaling
Protocol defines a way to reset flash devices without a need for a
dedicated reset pin. The SFDP (Serial Flash Discoverable Parameter)
standard provides a consistent method of describing the functional
and feature capabilities of serial flash devices in a common set of
internal parameter tables. With it, OEMs can speed firmware
development and time-to-market. The latest revision of the SFDP
specification adds support for Octal SPI.
“Adesto delivers solutions that ignite innovation for next
generation IoT devices. It was important that we help drive the
development of these standards, and we are delighted to be the
first company to ship serial flash devices with full support,” said
Gideon Intrater, Adesto’s CTO. “This is the first time that there
is a robust set of standards that defines ways for serial NOR flash
to communicate, making it possible for companies to easily
integrate the latest technology and increase the performance of
their designs.”
Demonstration at ElectronicaAt Electronica
2018, being held November 13 – 16, 2018, Adesto will demonstrate
its EcoXiP NVM integrated with the NXP i.MX RT1050 crossover
processor via the Octal xSPI interface, in compliance with the new
standards. Visit Adesto’s booth: Hall C3, Booth 121 at the Messe
München exhibition center. For more information, contact
info@adestotech.com.
About Adesto TechnologiesAdesto Technologies
(NASDAQ:IOTS) is a leading provider of innovative
application-specific semiconductors for the IoT era. The company’s
technology is used by more than 2,000 customers worldwide who are
creating differentiated solutions across industrial, consumer,
medical and communications markets. With its growing portfolio of
high-value technologies, Adesto is helping its customers usher in
the era of the Internet of Things. See: www.adestotech.com.
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