Month: August 2015
There are many flash memory choices available to OEM Embedded System designers. Depending on the system requirements, different architectures and flash memory technologies can be used to accomplish design goals.There are several types of memory used in embedded designs as shown in the image above. Based on their advantages and disadvantages, they are used for...
In 1995 CompactFlash cards were the first flash card modules to hit the mainstream market for data storage. Since that time, higher performance requirements by some systems created a need for a faster device. With that in mind, the CompactFlash Association defined the CFast industry standard. To attain the higher performance, CFast cards have a...
This article describes Over-Provisioning supported by many Solid State Drives, whether advertised on not. It is basically data space not available to the operating system which is used by the SSD to perform internal tasks such as bad block mapping, wear leveling and garbage collection. The amount of Over-Provisioned area is generally set at the...
If you don’t live and breathe flash storage, you may not be aware of the memory characteristics inside your SSD or flash card. At first glance it doesn’t seem very important, but the memory type greatly impacts the reliability of the overall flash storage device. Flash Storage devices include flash cards such as CompactFlash, SD,...
Selected content from Cactus marketing collateral over the past 3 months. http://eepurl.com/buQ4DD
The latest buzzword in the market is the Internet of Things (IoT). I’ve heard the Internet of Things described as a bunch of sensors connected to everything, collecting data on everything, which is then transmitted over the Internet to everyone. With that said there are many different requirements in this Internet of Things. There’s relatively...
