Product category:
Memory Devices and Modules
News Release from: M-Systems | Subject: MDOC H3
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 September 2006
Embedded Flash drive enters mass
production
M-Systems has commenced mass production of the mDOC H3 embedded Flash drive (EFD) and will start shipping to top-tier customers for their high-volume mobile projects.
M-Systems has commenced mass production of the mDOC H3 embedded Flash drive (EFD) and will start shipping to top-tier customers for their high-volume mobile projects As a testament to the growing importance of personal storage within mainstream multimedia handsets and smart phones, top-tier manufacturers have integrated mDOC H3 into their latest products as a key component to provide high-capacity storage for photos, music files, applications and anything else subscribers may choose to save on their handsets' personal storage
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"It is encouraging to see that the confidence our partners put in mDOC H3 is shared by our manufacturing customers" said Dan Inbar, Corporate Vice President and Co-Manager of the M-Systems Mobile Division.
"Based on more than 17 years of Flash expertise, a strong intellectual property portfolio and the experience of integrating our products within millions of deployed, tier-1 mobile handsets, mDOC H3 takes a smarter approach to embedded Flash drives".
"In addition to allowing easier integration of the latest, most cost-effective NAND Flash material from major silicon partners such as Toshiba and Hynix, we have succeeded in bringing the mDOC H3 to market with an even higher level of system performance than initially announced".
Although initial announcements stated that mDOC H3 would have a write speed of 4Mbyte/s and a read speed of 10Mbyte/s, M-Systems has already achieved write speeds of up to 7Mbyte/s and read speeds as high as 25Mbyte/s.
The high system performance of mDOC H3 is enabled by its advanced architecture and its embedded TrueFFS-based Flash management software, which operates internally within the chip as firmware.
Embedded TrueFFS frees the host for other tasks and provides CPU and bus offload while overcoming the limitations of the latest NAND technology.
The mDOC H3 embedded Flash drive, now mass produced in a range of densities up to 1Gbyte, is available from M-Systems.
The 2Gbyte mDOC H3 is slated for availability within the next 2 months.
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