BPM Introduces New Flash Vector Programming System
2 April 2007
BPM Microsystems introduces the Cheetah Flash Vector Programming system to the electronics and semiconductor industries. According to BPM, the Cheetah offers flash programming of NAND and NOR flash memory at speeds as low as 2.5 percent over theoretical programming minimum.
The Cheetah programs NAND and NOR Flash up to 32 Gb (gigabit) and has upgradeable RAM for future densities. It comes standard with 4191 Mb (32.7 Gb) memory per site that is upgradeable to handle future densities and communicates with USB 2.0 between the host PC and programmer. The programmer also includes bad block replacement scheme for NAND and low voltage support. A four-socket manual system, Cheetah is BPM’s first dedicated hardware design for flash memories, which results in a radical improvement in speed when compared to competitive flash programmers, the company said.
