AT49BV040-90TC

The AT49BV/LV040 are 3-volt only, 4-megabit Flash memories organized as 524,288 words of 8-bits each. Manufactured with Atmel's advanced nonvolatile CMOS technology, the devices offer access times to 70 ns with power dissipation of just 90 mW over the commercial temperature range. When the device is deselected, the CMOS standby current is less than 50 µA.

AT49BV040-90TC contains a user-enabled  "boot block"  protection feature. The AT49BV/LV040 locates the boot block at lowest order addresses ("bottom boot"). To allow for simple in-system reprogrammability, the AT49BV/LV040 does not require high input voltages for programming. Three-volt-only commands determine the read and programming operation of the device. Reading data out of AT49BV040-90TC is similar to reading from an EPROM. Reprogramming the AT49BV/LV040 is performed by erasing the entire four megabits of memory and then programming on a byte-by-byte basis. The typical byte programming time is a fast 30 µs. The end of a program cycle of AT49BV040-90TC can be optionally detected by the Data Polling feature. Once the end of a byte program cycle has been detected, a new access for a read or program can begin. The typical number of program and erase cycles of AT49BV040-90TC is in excess of 10,000 cycles.

The optional 16K bytes boot block section includes a reprogramming write lockout feature to provide data integrity. The boot sector is designed to contain user-secure code, and when the feature of AT49BV040-90TC is enabled, the boot sector is permanently protected from being reprogrammed.