Infineon’s memory expertise has been boosted by  the Cypress acquisition and it is now sampling Semper Secure as an addition to its Semper NOR Flash family.

Based on Semper NOR Flash’s memory architecture, Semper Secure NOR Flash claims to be the first memory solution to combine security and functional safety in a single NOR flash device to deliver the security, safety, and reliability required for the most advanced connected automotive, industrial, and communications systems.

Having a secured flash solution is especially important when the NOR Flash is placed outside of a processor, making it vulnerable to a variety of attacks. Semper Secure claims to be the only NOR Flash solution that serves as a hardware root-of-trust to provide end-to-end protection.

The Semper Solution Development Kit enables easy system integration to accelerate time-to-market and reduce total cost-of-ownership.

The Semper Secure NOR Flash family includes AEC-Q100 automotive-qualified devices with an extended temperature range of -40 °C to +125 °C, supports 1.8-V and 3.0-V operating ranges, and is available in densities of 128 Mb, 256 Mb and 512 Mb.

Semper Secure NOR Flash is designed and fully compliant to the ISO 26262 standard and is ASIL-B compliant and ready to be used in systems up to ASIL-D.

The implemented EnduraFlex architecture simplifies system design by enabling optimization for high endurance or long data retention partitions.

The devices are offered with Quad Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), Octal SPI and HyperBus interfaces.

The Octal and HyperBus interface devices are compliant with the JEDEC eXpanded SPI (xSPI) standard for high-speed x8 serial NOR Flash and offer a read bandwidth of up to 400MBps.

Volume production expected during the second quarter of 2021.