Flash memory plays an integral role in today’s advanced Consumer Electronics (CE) products, including devices such as digital TVs, set-top boxes, digital cameras, and DVDs, to name a few. Many of these devices use flash memory to store application code and critical system boot code, as well as digital audio files, digital photographs, address books and other application-independent data. Intel® NOR Flash Memory solutions are designed to meet the diverse needs of these CE applications, and the related growth in their storage requirements.

One-Chip NOR Flash Solution
When selecting non-volatile memory for a CE application, designers can opt for a one-chip NOR solution. The NOR solution enables the execution of code and the storage of data from one chip, rather than requiring a combination of memory types. This results in a cost-effective, design-efficient solution that requires less PCB space—particularly important with small form factor devices such as digital cameras.

Intel’s high-quality NOR flash memory solutions are simple to integrate without ECC complexities, bad block management or reduced cycling concessions. In addition to these benefits, code is executed directly from the NOR flash, which can reduce overall system RAM requirements. With the one-chip NOR solution, there are no added costs and complexities that could have a major impact on overall product quality, user experience and time-to-market.

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