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NAND Flash Controller IP

As storage moves away from traditional media, NAND Flash offers the mix of performance and cost required to support the latest applications. Controlling and interfacing with NAND Flash, however, poses a challenge when trying to maximize system-level performance. Cadence® Design IP for NAND Flash delivers the industry’s highest performance, most feature-rich, and most flexible NAND Flash solution that enables enterprise-class storage and embedded memory applications.

Cadence Design IP: NAND Flash Controller Technical Brief»

Evaluate NAND Flash Controller IP»

The Cadence NAND Flash Controller, combined with the Cadence NAND Flash Soft PHY, provides advanced capabilities for the latest NAND specifications. The Controller supports older legacy interfaces that are still widely used, and it provides unparalleled backward compatibility.

By hardware-accelerating many functions that are typically implemented in software, the Cadence NAND Flash Controller enables engineers to drastically improve performance while significantly reducing the integration effort.

Key Features

Universal Flash support across all vendors
BCH error correction optimized for different applications
Optional multi-level bit cell ECC ( 8, 16, 32, 64, and higher)
Auto-detect and auto-config to reduce boot loader code generation
Line-rate hardware detection and correction
ONFI 1,2,3 and Toggle 1,2 device support
Flash data width from 8 and 16 bits
Asynchronous or synchronous mode
Multiple low-power options
Support for SLC, MLC, and TLC boot operation
Data and command DMA available
Multi-plane operation
Read/write cache command support
Small data command support (partial page)
Volume and LUN addressing
Interlaced and NON-interlaced addressing

Silicon-proven, Scalable Design IP

The Cadence NAND Flash Controller has been widely deployed across a range of applications and devices―without silicon failures. Enabling so much hardware acceleration with so few issues demonstrates the robustness of the design in all silicon technol¬ogies, including FPGAs.

Superior Performance

The Cadence NAND Flash Controller has a performance-driven architecture that implements hardware acceleration for many functions typically done in firmware. Using the data and command DMA, the Controller can easily obtain within 10% of the theoretical maximum performance of the Flash device speci¬fication. For more random applications, the Controller supports partial page accesses.

Cadence Flash device support

Manufacturer	Device Type	Comments
Samsung	SLC/MLC	All known devices
Toshiba	SLC/MLC	All known devices, logical block addressing (LBA) supported
Hynix	SLC/MLC	All known devices
Micron	SLC/MLC	All known devices
ONFI 1	SLC/MLC	All known devices mode 1-5
ONFI 2.2, 3	SLC/MLC	All known devices mode 1-5
Toggle 1, 2	SLC/MLC	All known devices 166MHz