MirrorBit® Eclipse™ Architecture

A Revolutionary Architecture Enabling Feature Phones with Higher Performance and Lower Costs

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Handset designers are facing increasing pressures to reduce handset costs and add more multimedia content capabilities into phones – and at the same time be the first to market with their new innovations.

By focusing on NOR Flash memory innovations, Spansion has introduced the revolutionary MirrorBit® Eclipse™ architecture that can save handset manufacturers up to 30 percent or more on their handset memory subsystems bill of materials costs. The MirrorBit Eclipse architecture combines MirrorBit NOR, ORNAND™ and Quad technologies on a single die, delivering a powerful combination not previously possible in the industry.

With the increase of digital content on phones and multimedia portable devices such as pictures, music and video, MirrorBit Eclipse can enable improved performance such as fast application loading and boot times, fast image storage.

How MirrorBit Eclipse Works

By taking advantage of MirrorBit Eclipse with its NOR interface and XIP approach, Spansion can reduce the amount of DRAM in the system. As a result of the MirrorBit NOR, ORNAND and Quad combination, performance improvements such as running code at blasting speeds and storing large amounts of multimedia content can be achieved. MirrorBit Eclipse’s ease-of-use and compatibility with existing platforms provide easy migration for handset OEMs.

Additionally, the MirrorBit Eclipse architecture integrates a programmable microcontroller which replaces the conventional state machine typically used in Flash memory and also supports built-in self test ( BIST). This system-on-chip (SoC) technology enabled by MirrorBit technology’s ability to efficiently integrate logic is designed to support a production process that is more flexible and faster, enabling OEMs to get phones faster to market, benefiting the entire mobile ecosystem.