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15 years ago

Multiprocessors and Flash Devices

I am interesting designing a Multiprocessor Nios design with a flash device(or alternative memory device) to store the different codes for each processor. What type of flash devices do people general...
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Is there any "newer" devices that maybe applicable ? If yes what benifits may there be in using them over the standard CFI FLash devices ?

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This depend on the capacity and extra features you need.

For standard usage and up to 1Gbit size you can use Spansion S29GL or similar.

Take a look to any memory producer website (Spansion, Numonyx, etc) for an overview of flash memories characteristics.