Freescale snips ColdFire to 90-nm node

PORTLAND: Cutting down on its ColdFire processors to the 90-nm node., chip maker Freescale Semiconductor is making the most of its unique thin-film storage (TFS) technology for the 90-nanometer node.

Advanced features such as ultra-low power requirements for long battery life, integrated analog converters, touch pad sensing, display support, and cyber security accelerators are aspects that ColdFire boasts of.

Freescale has pointed out that one unique feature of ColdFire+ is hat it hold within itself TFS that can be called as Flex Memory nonvolatile storage. Based on Freescale's nanocrystalline thin-film floating gate memory cells can configured as large flash or small EEPROM and this is the first model which introduces this technology.

ColdFire+ processor, the base model, has FlexMemory that can be configured as a 2kbyte EEPROM or a 32kbyte flash, or some combination of the two like 1kbytes EEPROM and 16kbytes flash. Flex memory always enables the write speed as fast as 100 microseconds and up to 4.4 million write/erase cycles over the voltage range of 1.71-to-3.6 volts.

It has the lowest power consumption, of up to 150 microAmps per MHz, and stop currents under 500 nanoamps and wake-up times fewer than four microseconds. It also have 10 different low-power modes