Quad SPI at 133 MHz gives a theoretical read throughput of 532 Mbps (133 MHz × 4 I/O). For a typical automotive MCU booting from external Flash, this means the code shadowing from the NOR to internal SRAM completes in under a second for a 2 MB image. The interface supports XIP (execute-in-place) for latency-sensitive look-up tables or calibration data that stays in Flash.
For a buyer qualifying a BOM for a multi-year automotive program, this means no last-time-buy exposure on the current forecast horizon.
