Motorola has integrated flash disk storage vendor M-Systems' DiskOnChip storage technology into reference designs for mobile applications based on its DragonBall MX1 microprocessor.

Available in a wide range of capacities, M-Systems said DiskOnChip provides a storage solution to products based on Motorola's DragonBall MX1 microprocessor. DiskOnChip is designed to store the boot code, user preferences and data, software applications and the operating system.

"DiskOnChip provides the capacity, performance and cost structure needed for applications based on our DragonBall microprocessor," said Kenny Cheung, general manager, Asia Pacific Region, Motorola's wireless and broadband systems group. "DiskOnChip helps our customers reduce component count and board space, lower power consumption, keep system costs low, and shorten time to market."

Motorola said DragonBall, like DiskOnChip, is suitable for use in various operating system environments including Linux, Symbian and Windows CE. Earlier this year, DragonBall was the first microprocessor to be certified for the new Palm OS 5.