Winbond

Winbond of Taiwan manufactures semiconductor devices, including flash storage.

W25N01GVxxIG/IT

A 1Gb (128MB) Quad-SPI SLC NAND chip of 1K 128KB blocks (each made up of 64 ECC-protected 2KB pages), capable of up to 104MHz Quad-SPI. Each page, in addition to the 2048 usable bytes, contains a 64-byte "Spare Area". Writes load 2,112 bytes. When on-device ECC is enabled, the majority of the Spare Area is used for ECC and bad block marking, though 2 unprotected and 4 ECC-protected bits are available to the user in each of 4 16-byte lines. When on-device ECC is disabled, the 64 bytes of the Spare Area are available to the user. The serial NAND employs 32-bit addresses: the four MSB are unused, 10 bits select the block, 6 bits select the page, and the 12 LSB specify the byte.

The xx refers to the package code. The IT part sets the BUF mode selector to 0 on initialization. The IG part sets BUF to 1. Both allow the mode to be configured by writing to the BUF bit of the Configuration Register.

Packages

• 8-pad WSON 8x6mm (package code ZE)
• 16-pin SOIC 300-mil (package code SF)
• 1x4 + 4x5 24-ball 8x6mm TFBGA (package code TB)
• 4x6 24-ball 8x6mm TFBGA (package code TC)

Lines

• CLK serial clock input
• /CS chip select input
  • High deselects the device, putting it into standby mode (reduced power consumption)
  • Transition to low places device into active mode
  • /CS must track VCC during initialization and shutdown
• DI (IO0) data input / data io0
• DO (IO1) data output / data io1
• /WP (IO2) write protect input / data io2
• /HOLD (IO3) hold input / data io3
• VCC power (2.7V--3.6V)
• GND

/WP and /HOLD are only for SPI/Dual-SPI (Quad-SPI uses data io 0--3). Data is always written on the rising edge of CLK, and read on the falling edge. SPI must write through DO and read through DI. Dual- and Quad-SPI treat data io pins as bidirectional.

Registers

Used with the ReadStatusRegister and WriteStatusRegister commands:

• Protection Register (SR1)
• Configuration Register (SR2)
  • MSB: OTP lock. Once set to 1, the OTP area (10 2KB pages) cannot be reprogrammed.
  • B6: OTP access enable. Must be set to 1 to access OTP area.
  • B5: SR1 lock. Once set to 1, selected SR1 values are OTP-locked.
  • B4: ECC enable. Defaults to 1. Controls on-device bidirectional ECC.
  • B3: BUF mode select. Default depends on part number (IG defaults to 1). 1 is buffer read mode, 0 is continuous.
    • Buffer mode: provided a starting byte and a page, returns the page starting at that byte, plus the Spare Area
    • Continuous mode: provided a page, returns (multiple pages of) memory starting at the first byte of that page
    • Only buffer mode allows the Spare Area to be read
• Status Register (SR3)