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‘The first’ 4-ball WLCSP EEPROM with multiple I2C addresses

Extending its M24 serial EEPROM family, STMicroelectronics has announced four devices that are fully compatible with the industry-standard 4-ball Wafer Level Chip Scale Package (WLCSP) footprint. The additions enable, for the first time, two or more 4-pin EEPROMs to be connected to the same I2C bus with an individual I2C address hard-wired internally. This allows dedicated devices for specific purposes, such as front/rear camera modules, on the same bus.

Memory

14 January 2016

byNews Desk

The devices meet customers’ needs for multiple sourcing by offering the same pitch, die orientation, and pin assignment as competitive products while allowing a choice of I²C slave addresses. The M24 serial EEPROMs maintain the unrivalled high-performance features of the existing devices, such as 4m erase/write cycles and 200 year data retention.

According to independent market analysts IHS, ST has been the world’s number one EEPROM supplier for the past ten years, with a market share consistently above 25%. The M24 family, like all ST’s EEPROM products, benefit from the Company’s rigorous ‘automotive-grade’ approach in terms of robustness, quality and product longevity.

Samples of the 32- and 64kb M24C32-FCU6TP/TF, M24C32M-FCU6T/TF, M24C64-FCU6TP/TF and M24C64M-FCU6T/TF are available with prices starting from $0.14 in 1,000 unit quantities.