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DS25044A

08/11

5

16 Mbit SPI Serial Flash

SST25VF016B

Data Sheet

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Memory Organization

The SST25VF016B SuperFlash memory array is organized in uniform 4 KByte erasable sectors with

32 KByte overlay blocks and 64 KByte overlay erasable blocks.

Device Operation

The SST25VF016B is accessed through the SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) bus compatible protocol.

The SPI bus consist of four control lines; Chip Enable (CE#) is used to select the device, and data is

accessed through the Serial Data Input (SI), Serial Data Output (SO), and Serial Clock (SCK).

The SST25VF016B supports both Mode 0 (0,0) and Mode 3 (1,1) of SPI bus operations. The difference

between the two modes, as shown in Figure 3, is the state of the SCK signal when the bus master is in

Stand-by mode and no data is being transferred. The SCK signal is low for Mode 0 and SCK signal is

high for Mode 3. For both modes, the Serial Data In (SI) is sampled at the rising edge of the SCK clock

signal and the Serial Data Output (SO) is driven after the falling edge of the SCK clock signal.

Figure 3: SPI Protocol

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MODE 3

SCK

SI

SO

CE#

MODE 3

DON T CARE

Bit 7 Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0

Bit 7 Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0

MODE 0

MODE 0

HIGH IMPEDANCE

MSB

MSB