Over the past year, we have been focusing on meeting customer demand for our products. This year, we are re-prioritizing and preparing a new firmware release that meets the growing customer needs. The top areas we are targeting (all work with existing hardware) are:

1. Speed increase for write & read
2. Host side source code: royalty-free
3. Improved documentation
4. Elimination of physical handshake lines (reduction in required pins)
5. SDHC compatibility

The initial firmware release will target SPI host communication (UART for firmware upgrade). We have completed and tested "read" commands, and have written most of our "write" code. It is a complete firmware architecture, design, and code overhaul that is geared to meet the growing multimedia data speeds demanded by our top customers.

We are very excited about this new architecture as we believe it will enable us to provide a strong platform to provide free performance enhancements to our existing customers and enable best-in-class products going forward.