Siemens Embeds Flash In 16-Bit MCU
October 06, 1997, Issue: 1078
Section: Semiconductors
Siemens Components Inc., Cupertino, Calif., has unveiled a
16-bit microcontroller with embedded flash memory, and
claims the device represents a 50% to 70% performance
increase over similar devices using external memory.
The C163-16F integrates 126 Kbytes of flash, and is the first
chip within the C166 microcontroller product line to use
Siemens' 5-V embedded-flash technology with 32-bit-wide
internal bus access. Designed for data-processing and
communications applications such as hard drives, scanners,
and modems, the chip's on-board flash is organized as four
sectors of 32 Kbytes, each of which features 1,000-cycle
in-system write endurance.
The 20-MHz version of the C163-16F is $16 in 1,000s and is
sampling in a small, thin PTQFP-100. |
