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64-layer 3D NAND 512Gb chips

07.02.2017

Western Digital has announced the start of pilot production of 64-layer 3D NAND memory microchips (BICS3) with a capacity of 512 Gbps. These are the first products of this type in the world. The chips are made using TLC technology - three bits of information in one cell. Toshiba specialists took part in the development of the solution.

The microchips are manufactured at a facility in Yokkaichi, a special city in southeastern Japan that belongs to Mie Prefecture. It is here that Toshiba and SanDisk semiconductor chip factories are located.

Mass production of 64-layer 3D NAND chips with a capacity of 512 Gbit Western Digital plans to organize in the second half of this year. The company first announced the introduction of technology for the production of 64-layer 3D NAND chips in the middle of last year. And in 2015, the company demonstrated 48-layer 3D NAND products.

At the end of last year, Western Digital revealed some details about its plans for the use and production of 3D NAND flash memory based on the BICS architecture. Western Digital is taking a cautious approach to using XNUMXD NAND and in the near future plans to use this type of memory only for various types of removable drives - SD cards, USB sticks, etc.

It is noteworthy that Toshiba, which promotes Western Digital in the field of NAND production, also did not announce a single SSD based on 3D NAND (except for a rather exotic SSD in a BGA package), and its close partner, Lite-On Technology (an SSD branded Plextor ), did not showcase its Toshiba 3D NAND drives.

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Of the additional advantages, it is worth noting the possibility of using the FRAM-memory area as random access memory, and the size of this area is set by the user. Also, the developer can set the protection of certain areas of memory from different types of access (read / write).

The MSP430FR5969 integrates powerful analog peripherals, including a 12-bit ADC with voltage reference and a 16-input analog comparator. For communication with external devices, the controller provides UART, SPI, I2C interfaces, as well as an IrDA modulator for use in data exchange interfaces using infrared radiation. The UART and I2C interfaces can be used to program or update the controller software using the BSL bootloader. All GPIO pins support CapTouch capacitive sensor technology.

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Clock frequency: 16 MHz;
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