Serial NAND

Micron's serial NAND has two important strengths that are major benefits to embedded designers:

The on-chip ECC controller reduces the computing load on the CPU often involved with handling raw NAND. This benefit is most striking when the microcontroller does not have an integrated ECC controller. Executing the ECC calculation in software could be extremely burdensome, particularly on smaller microcontrollers.
The Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) command set allows for a low pin-count standard interface to the NAND from almost any microcontroller.

HCC’s drivers for Micron Serial NAND are available for both its fail-safe flash translation layer (SafeFTL), which is used by HCC’s SafeFAT, FAT and THIN file systems, and also for HCC’s SafeFLASH flash file system. This gives the developer a full range of highly reliable storage solutions for Micron devices.