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News Release from: Winsystems | Subject: CompactFlash cards
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 November 2005
CompactFlash cards have industrial
specifications
New CompactFlash cards are targeted for applications that need industrial-grade reliability, industry-standard compatibility, and IDE hard disk drive emulation for program and data storage.
WinSystems ha released five different density CompactFlash (CF) cards that operate from -40 to +85C They are targeted for applications that need industrial-grade reliability, industry-standard compatibility, and IDE hard disk drive emulation for program and data storage
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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CompactFlash cards meet industrial specs
CF cards are targeted for applications that need industrial-grade reliability, industry-standard compatibility and IDE hard disk drive emulation for program and data storage.
The WinSystems' CF card densities are 128Mbyte, 256Mbyte, 512Mbyte, 1Gbyte and 2Gbyte and they will support WinSystems' single board computers or any other manufacturer's computer that have a CompactFlash socket.
As they are true IDE Mode and ATA-3 compliant, they are compatible with different operating systems such as Linux, Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded without requiring a special driver.
Reliability and performance are key features of WinSystems' CF cards.
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They are constructed with Samsung NAND-type single-level-cell (SLC) Flash memory devices paired with a dedicated 32bit RISC/DSP-based system controller.
"Using the 32bit RISC/DSP-based system controller, a variety of sophisticated error checking and Flash management schemes are employed allowing for levels of reliability and endurance in excess of the physical NAND Flash", said Robert Burckle, Vice-President of WinSystems.
"The 32bit RISC/DSP-based controller applies static and dynamic wear-leveling methods to ensure even wear of Flash blocks across the entire card capacity".
Background operations track erase counts, prioritise new writes to blocks with lower wear, and relocate static data to blocks with higher wear.
Bad-block management routines replace worn blocks with spare blocks reserved by the controller's on-card initialisation.
Reed-Solomon based ECC algorithms capable of detecting and correcting up to 6byte per 512byte sector are implemented on the fly without performance degradation to ensure data reliability through user data transfers and background wear-leveling operations.
This allows the CF cards to have greater than 2 million program/erase cycles and unlimited reads while maintaining fast transfer speeds of up to 16.6Mbyte/s in burst mode.
Also, the controller supports the Enhanced Write Filter (EWF) mode for Windows XPe.
WinSystems' CF cards support a dual 3.3/5V interface for system flexibility.
They meet the Compact Flash Association CFA 2.0/2.1 specification, the PCMCIA PC Card Standard 7.0 (February 1999), and the PCMCIA PC Card ATA Specification 7.0 (February 1999).
Delivery is from stock.
List price of the CFlash-128M-I, a 128Mbyte industrial temperature unit, is $45.
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