Atmel has introduced its first 8Mbit serial flash device capable of operating at 1.8V.

With a low-voltage operating range of 1.65V to 1.95V, the AT25DF081 operates at the same voltage range as many current and upcoming sub-90nm Asics and processors/controllers.

It is likely that the AT25DF081 will be used as a boot and code shadowing flash memory, and so read performance from the device is critical in order to keep the applications’ power-up boot time as short as possible to appease the instant-on expectations of consumers. 

The 66MHz operation of the chip should address this concern and can enable an application to shadow the entire contents of the memory in under a very short 130 milliseconds.

The AT25DF081 is offered in three different package options comprising of an 8-lead, 150-mil wide “narrow-body” SOIC, an 8-contact, 5x6x0.6mm Ultra Thin DFN (UDFN), and an extremely small, 0.4mm thin 11-ball dBGA (WLCSP).