PRESS RELEASE

Blunk Microsystems ships TargetFFS-NOR™ for Intel’s latest 90nm StrataFlash® Cellular Memory

San Jose, CA (January 26, 2006) Blunk Microsystems announces shipment of TargetFFS-NOR support for Intel’s latest StrataFlash® Cellular Memory, also known as “M18”, industry’s first 90-nanometer (nm) multi-level cell (MLC) NOR-type flash memory.

Working with Intel to provide advance support for this latest StrataFlash® Cellular Memory, Blunk Microsystems architected new TargetFFS algorithms, tested them on-site with Intel, and delivered them to a major cell phone handset supplier who has integrated these new chips into their product, allowing them to take advantage of the NOR flash density and price-per-bit breakthroughs Intel has achieved.

TargetFFS-NOR is the premier embedded flash file system from Blunk Microsystems. Offering guaranteed power-fail recovery, high-performance, fast mounts, and high-end UNIX-like features such as access permissions, file attributes, hard links, and quotas, TargetFFS has been tapped by such demanding applications as JPL’s Deep Impact satellite program, BMW’s console navigation system, and numerous cell phone vendors worldwide.

Other features in the latest TargetFFS release include:

  • MLC NOR Flash Support: New algorithms for Intel’s StrataFlash parts.
  • UTF-8 Support: Allows non-ASCII file names, a key requirement for TargetFFS’s many customers in the Asian handset market.
  • Optimized seeks: New fseekmark() and lseekmark() routines bookmark a file offset for faster seek performance. This feature allowed an MP3 player manufacturer to meet their no-glitch user interface requirements.
  • Reduced Footprint: Special-purpose memory manager reduces the amount of memory required for file names, enabling applications that have a small memory budget and require many files.

About Blunk Microsystems

Blunk Microsystems has provided high-performance embedded software for 32-bit processors since 1995. Products include an RTOS, advanced embedded file systems, IPv4 and IPv6 certified TCP/IP stacks, graphics library, USB host stack, web server, high-level source debugger, and integrated GNU-based development environment.

Contact

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3626 Fair Oaks Blvd. Suite 100
Sacramento, CA 95864
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