BP Microsystems and M-Systems announce DiskOnChip Millennium programming support

<%=company1%> and BP Microsystems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. have jointly announced programming support for M-Systems' DiskOnChip Millennium technology. BP Microsystems is the first manufacturer to announce support for DiskOnChip Millennium technology on both engineering and automated production programmers. Programming support by BP allows users of DiskOnChip Millennium technology to program or load specific instructions on to single devices with BP engineering programmers or multiple devices with BP production programmers

DiskOnChip Millennium technology is a complete, single die, single chip flash disk solution available in either 32-pin DIP or TSOP II packages. The capacity of the DiskOnChip Millennium is 8MB. Up to four devices can be cascaded with no additional hardware, creating a single flash disk of up to 32MB.

"We are happy to be able to work with BP Microsystems to provide our customers programming support," said Chuck Schouw, President and CEO, M-Systems, Inc. "This is a very important relationship as it will allow our customers to program DiskOnChip in a production environment which is crucial for customers requiring DiskOnChip in high volumes."

"Our customers have come to rely on BP for programming support of the latest device technology and our partnership with M-Systems and support of their DiskOnChip technology is another example of that," said BP Microsystems' Executive VP, David Loeschner. "We pride ourselves on our device support and the fact that we're able to provide support for this breakthrough technology."

More than 500 standard embedded systems motherboards and single board computers are currently shipping with DiskOnChip devices or built-in DiskOnChip sockets. TrueFFS technology works in nearly all major operating system environments including Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows CE, Windows NT, Windows NT Embedded, and other leading operating systems.

Edited by Bruce A. Bennett
Managing Editor, Embedded Technology.com