Partners to put latest Flash onto SH-Mobile

M-Systems and Renesas Technology have extended their partnership to increase the availability of advanced multimedia mobile phone architectures.

M-Systems and Renesas Technology have extended their partnership to increase the availability of advanced multimedia mobile phone architectures.

As part of this new level of partnership, the companies are porting Mobile DiskOnChip onto the Solution Engine System Development Platform for the SH-Mobile Application Processor from Renesas Technology.

"SH-Mobile from Renesas Technology is one of the most popular processors for mobile applications", said David Tolub, Vice President and Comanager of M-Systems' DiskOnChip Business Unit.

"Being included within Solution Engine establishes Mobile DiskOnChip as an important mobile storage solution that is helping to bring about an evolution in mobile memory system architecture".

SH-Mobile processors deliver complete multimedia solutions to the world's major manufacturers of mobile phones and other wireless communication devices.

With the complete Solution Engine platform system solution from Renesas Technology, manufacturers can focus their efforts on application development and product differentiation rather than on initial research and development, saving designers and manufacturers valuable time to market.

Additionally, at the invitation of Renesas Technology, M-Systems has joined the Renesas Technology-sponsored SH-Mobile Consortium, a development community established to help the proliferation and rapid deployment of SH-Mobile processors and related products like Mobile DiskOnChip.

This new level of partnership between the companies will facilitate the availability of advanced multimedia mobile phone architecture, helping to offer a greater variety of solutions for SH-Mobile customers while widening the use of the highly acclaimed technology from M-Systems, in addition to Renesas Technology's superAND Flash memory that is already supported by SH-Mobile.

Advanced multimedia phone architecture requires fast, low-power processors and reliable, high-performance storage media to operate the latest features, such as cameras, online gaming and video, and audio playback.

The Solution Engine from Renesas Technology combines the fast, low-power SH-Mobile processor and the reliable, high-performance Mobile DiskOnChip Flash disk from M-Systems to make an advanced multimedia mobile phone architecture that offers a complete, ready-to-test design to product manufacturers.

"The combination of SH-Mobile and Mobile DiskOnChip offers a very cost-effective and high-performance solution for multimedia phones", said Ikuya Kawasaki, Department Manager of SOC Design Dept.6, SOC Div, MCU and SOC Business Unit, Renesas Technology.

"Together, we are enabling the most advanced features and applications in devices by maximising the benefits of multilevel-cell data storage memory".

Mobile DiskOnChip, selected by EDN as one of the top 100 products of 2003, is a high-capacity NAND-based onboard multimedia memory solution.

It is targeted specifically for multimedia mobile handsets and provides phone manufacturers with the latest in Flash technology.

Featuring unmatched reliability and an ultra thin controller, Mobile DiskOnChip, the onboard multilevel cell (MLC) NAND device, offers the high performance necessary for multimedia applications at a lower cost.

Within feature rich handsets, Mobile DiskOnChip can be used to store both the operating system (OS) and application code, as well as user data such as still pictures, video content, personal information manager (PIM) content, games and music.

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