02.Cypress SONOS Technology Cypress SONOS Technology Cypress Semiconductor White Paper By Krishnaswamy Ramkumar Executive Summary Introduction This white paper discusses the key The demand for embedded Flash memory in system-on-chip (SOC) designs features of Cypress SONOS has grown steeply in recent years as newer applications evolve in technology, its performance, and communications and consumer electronics. The memory content of complex reliability. It also presents a SOC has increased due to increased demand on system performance. Flash comparison between the SONOS memory is highly desirable in most applications to store critical data and code. technology and other Flash However, SOC designers require……