Year: 2015
This is Blog #5 of 13 in our Solid State Drives 101 educational series. If you're ready, continue to Blog #6: Component Packaging. Previous articles on the NAND architecture ranged from the basic NAND cell up to the block level. In this article we move up to discuss the plane and die level.As discussed in earlier Solid...
Industrial Compact Flash have been the workhorse for rugged storage applications over the past couple decades and they continue to be used on new Embedded OEM designs due to their modularity, high reliability and ease of integration. Cactus Technologies offers three different product series of Industrial CF cards, one of which will meet the specific needs...
Below are two PDF files with recent Cactus articles in the German and Swiss press created and published by our distributor Systronics. E&E 2-15_HiH_Syslogic.indd.pdf (184.2 KiB) fako_ml_1405_systronic.pdf (320.6 KiB)
This is Blog #4 of 13 in our Solid State Drives 101 educational series. If you're ready, continue to Blog #5: NAND Planes & Die. The previous solid state drive primers focused on the individual NAND Cell, NAND strings and arrays. This article digs deeper into arrays and builds up to the page and blocks of NAND flash....
Due to the cost advantages of MLC NAND based flash storage versus Industrial Grade SLC devices, many MLC parts are finding their way into wide temperature applications. An OEM making this decision should thoroughly consider several items before using MLC over time at extended temp.At 8GB and less, an Industrial SLC NAND based device can...
Embedded Computing Design Article: The SPI interface is supported by SD and microSD cards and provides a convenient data storage interface for low-end embedded systems. Over the years, we’ve seen many more embedded designs using the SD interface go with SPI mode due to simplicity of design. Read the rest at: http://embedded-computing.com/guest-blogs/the-sd-and-microsd-cards-spi-interface-suits-low-end-embedded-systems/
This is Blog #3 of 13 in our Solid State Drives 101 educational series. If you're ready, continue to Blog #4: NAND Pages & Blocks. The previous two solid state drive primers focused on the individual NAND Cell, whether used to store one, two or three bits. This article focuses on the bigger picture of how many NAND...
Recently the Opportunity Rover, which has been exploring the Martian environment for over 10 years, began experiencing issues with one of its flash memory devices. Although it looks like a work around will be successful, it points out the importance of using the best memory for Mission Critical Applications and understanding how long do solid state...
This is Blog #2 of 13 in our Solid State Drives 101 educational series. If you're ready, continue to Blog #3: NAND Strings & Arrays. This article builds on the earlier Basic NAND Flash Cell article, by showing the advances in technology from the original SLC to MLC, and TLC NAND Cells. For a simple review of the Basic...
In this view from Embedded World 2015, Rich Nass interviews Sai-Ying Ng, President and CEO of Cactus Technologies, about industrial-grade storage.
