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News Release from: Silicon Storage Technology | Subject: 85LD0512, 85LD1001T and 85LD1002U
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 February 2008
Flash drives boost industrial storage
ATA solid-state storage devices operate over industrial temperature ranges, making them compelling options for industrial applications operating in harsh environments
Silicon Storage Technology has made three additions to its NANDrive family of ATA solid-state storage devices The new 512Mbyte, 1Gbyte and 2Gbyte NANDrive products are capable of operating at industrial temperature ranges, making them compelling storage options for industrial applications operating in harsh environments, including medical equipment, factory automation and in-cabin automotive electronics
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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SST NANDrive is a high-performance, high-endurance, fully integrated embedded Flash solid-state drive that provides a total solution well suited for data storage in embedded or portable applications.
At a mere 12 x 24 x 1.4mm, NANDrive is one of the industry's smallest ATA solid-state drives.
The new NANDrive devices are rated for operation at temperatures between -40 and +85C.
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This temperature rating, combined with the devices' use of single-level cell (SLC) NAND Flash and the inherent ruggedness of solid-state drives, makes these new NANDrive devices an ideal fit for use in applications that require a long operating life and high reliability under extreme physical conditions.
"Designers creating products for industrial and automotive markets have been looking for storage options beyond traditional magnetic hard disk drives, which typically don't perform well in stressful physical conditions", says Frank Lin, Vice President, Product Marketing and New Product Development, SST.
"Our new industrial-grade NANDrive devices were developed to give embedded designers a high-capacity solid-state storage solution with low power consumption and a small form factor that can withstand the temperature extremes and high-impact conditions typical of industrial and automotive applications".
By leveraging SST's proven NAND controller technology, innovative multichip packaging expertise and a widely used industry standard ATA/IDE interface, the NANDrive family manages all NAND Flash complexities and allows designers to quickly integrate mass data storage solutions into their designs without having to make any firmware changes.
Because NANDrive complies with the standard ATA protocol supported by all standard embedded operating systems, embedded system designers no longer face the risk of host software revalidation cycles.
In contrast, some other solid-state mass data storage solutions require changing host-side vendor-specific software whenever there is a change in the controller or a change to new NAND Flash devices.
To further ease integration and reduce inventory management, SST NANDrive solves the issues of pairing a NAND controller with new NAND Flash devices.
This is especially beneficial as NAND Flash devices continue to migrate to new process geometries every year.
As an integrated multichip package solution, NANDrive eliminates the need for long qualification cycles when there is a change of NAND Flash technology; customers need only qualify the NANDrive as a mass storage subsystem.
In addition to its ease of integration, SST NANDrive offers high performance along with several advanced security protection features.
SST's industry-first hardware 8bit ECC engine and its firmware programmable multi-tasking NAND interface help solve the slow performance problem that is typical when using lower cost, multilevel cell (MLC) NAND Flash.
SST NANDrive offers a unique 20byte serial ID number for data encryption as well as up to four protection zones that customers can use to store boot code.
By using the NANDrive to store boot code, system designers can eliminate the use of certain discrete devices, thus reducing bill of material costs.
Samples of the industrial-grade 85LD0512 (512Mbyte), 85LD1001T (1Gbyte) and 85LD1002U (2Gbyte) NANDrive products are available now, with volume production scheduled to begin in April 2008.
In 10,000 unit quantities, the devices are priced at US $17.25, $30.39 and $57.33 per unit, respectively.
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