• Status register
• Electronic signature
• Chip Enable ‘don’t care’
• Security features
o OTP area
• Serial number (unique ID) option
• Hardware data protection
o Program/erase locked during power transitions
• Data integrity
o 100,000 program/erase cycles (with ECC)
o 10 years data retention
• RoHS compliant packages
• Development tools
o Error correction code models
o Bad blocks management and wear leveling algorithms
12.3 Pinning