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To: Mike Winn who wrote (1184)	10/30/1997 9:32:00 PM
From: Mike Winn	Respond to of 60323

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.