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News Release from: ACT/Technico | Subject: Flash PMCStor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 July 2008
Mezzanine has a long (solid-state)
memory
The Flash PMCStor consumes less than 5W of power in operating mode and will fit single-board computers and carrier boards for CompactPCI, VME, VXS and VPX.
New from ACT/Technico, the Flash PMCStor is a low-power conduction-cooled solid-state Flash memory PMC module with up to 128Gbyte of NAND Flash memory Offered in convection- and conduction-cooled configurations, the module is suitable for mass storage requirements in rugged environments found in defence and aerospace applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 May 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Flash PMCStor uses the latest generation USB Flash disk controller; the memory is organised as an array of four flash banks with throughputs of 15Mbyte/s per array when seen as individual USB drives, or up to 30Mbyte/s as a single drive in RAID mode.
Additional features include wear levelling, write protect and error detection and bad block correction.
Three high-speed USB ports, one type A on the front panel and two ports via the rear PN4 I/O connector, allow for additional memory access options.
The new Flash PMCStor consumes less than 5W of power in operating mode and will fit single-board computers and carrier boards for CompactPCI, VME, VXS and VPX, or any board with a standard PMC site.
The Flash PMCStor supports PCI bus clock frequencies up to 66MHz in non-Monarch mode at 32 or 64bit wide.
Current operating systems supported include VxWorks, Linux and Windows.
The board is compatible with EMC 89/336/ECC, EN55022 CIE and EN50082-2 as well as USB version 2.0.
It also complies with USB Mass Storage Class specification version 1.0 as well as USB Revision 1.0 OHCI and EHCI.
The Flash PMCStor will be available in Q3 2008.
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