Expanding on their existing relationship, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today announced it has inked an agreement with Denali Software Inc. to develop IP products meant to allow deployment of OneNAND interfaces in system-on-chip designs.

The first product resulting from the collaboration is Denali’s Databahn OneNAND controller, to be rolled out globally this month, which extends the read/write performance of OneNAND for handset designs and other embedded platforms that support synchronous burst NOR memory. The Databahn OneNAND controller also will work with designs that do not support synchronous burst NOR, the companies said.

Per the agreement, Denali is charged with developing and supporting OneNAND Flash controller IP, whereas Samsung will have a limited number of the Databahn IP product available to its customers at no charge.

The Databahn OneNAND controller IP may also be purchased directly from Denali, as well as an integrated IP product, Dataplex, to be released next month, for controlling both OneNAND flash and SDR/DDR DRAM memory.

Simulation models for OneNAND flash devices and Databahn OneNAND Controller IP are available today.

Denali’s memory controller for OneNAND and DRAM is aimed at optimizing the data flow between OneNAND and mobile DRAM in multimedia handsets, the fastest growing mobile segment as well as enabling demand paging with OneNAND as the unified storage device for both code and data.

“Our goal is to enable customers to track the performance of OneNAND without leaving anything on the table, allowing customers to optimally differentiate their products, while accelerating the adoption of converged mobile solutions,” said Jon Kang, senior VP of Samsung Semiconductor’s technical marketing group, in a statement.

“By working with Denali, we are providing customers with critical IP products for integrating OneNAND technology in order to extract maximum performance from their product designs,” he added.

Samsung’s OneNAND is a single-chip that includes a NOR Flash interface, NAND Flash controller logic, a NAND Flash Array and up to 5KBytes of internal Buffer-RAM, able to achieve up to 108MByytes/sec. of read performance.

By: DocMemory
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