Breakthrough in Programming Technology
Stag’s P804 Sigma-Blaster™ - The Fastest Programmer on the Planet

The latest devices are getting denser and denser. Today, devices of sizes as big as 2Gbit to 8Gbit range are being programmed in production environments. We're going to see further multiplication in the size of the devices, and obviously programming times are also increasing. When devices start taking 20 to 30 minutes and in some cases even more than an hour to program, production throughput suffers very badly, and traditional methods such as Automated Programming or Gang Programming do not help. Today's programmers require fundamental changes in technology to tackle this problem of throughput.

Fortunately Stag had foreseen this problem and today we offer a very innovative and effective solution to program these high-density devices.

It may sound unbelievable but it's true, on Stag’s P804 with its Sigma-Blaster™ technology you can program entire 1Gbit of NAND Flash in just 12 seconds. It doesn't matter whether you're programming eight 1Gbit NAND Flash or just single 1Gbit NAND Flash, it will still program in just 12 seconds. Now this is what we call the solution to the throughput problem, THE PLANET'S FASTEST PROGRAMMER. So, what are you waiting for? Call us now to arrange a demonstration!

In the vast majority of production environments, there are only a handful of device types required to be programmed. To use a programmer which carries an overhead of 10,000 or more device algorithms, many of which were developed for now obsolete applications, is never likely to achieve the highest speed of programming required for today's production.

Sigma-Blaster™ is an alternative open architecture programmer design that configures itself to program only the device you need for the production session you are currently running; it does so by taking advantage of the manufacturer’s datasheet, for maximum speed and reliability in programming, giving utmost peace of mind.

Programming overheads are all but eliminated, and with a programmable data transfer rate in the order of a few nanoseconds this makes the P804 THE FASTEST PROGRAMMER ON THE PLANET BY A LONG WAY.

Maximum programming speed improvement of the P804 compared with traditional programmers will be seen with the physically smaller, higher density NAND Flash devices increasing in popularity. These devices are ideally suited to Sigma-Blaster™ technology because of their multi-cycle (serial) programming requirement, and with a growing range of ‘customerisable’ modules to satisfy the needs of your new product development program, Stag's P804 is the obvious choice if you want a futureproof capital investment.

Just how fast is fast?

Typical high density device datasheet

Sigma-Blaster™ chasing the silicon