Year: 2016
A Solid State Drive, whether Industrial, Commercial or Consumer Grade, is only as reliable as its overall system design and architecture. A key part of a SSD system is its controller. A poorly designed controller architecture and/or firmware algorithms can eliminate the advantages of the most reliable SLC NAND memory. Let’s take a look at...
For a long time, Industrial Grade flash storage products were considered anything made with SLC NAND. But as the generations of newer geometry SLC NAND arrive in the market, there are significant differences in reliability. Cactus Technologies focuses our efforts on the 43nm and 32nm SLC NAND. The larger the trace width, the more area...
At Embedded World 2016 in Nuremberg, Germany, Cactus Technologies displayed the high reliability Industrial Grade Flash Storage Devices which have earned a best in class reputation and launched several new embedded flash storage products. All products offer a locked-BOM (Bill-Of-Material) signifying there will be no changes to controller, memory or firmware without notification to the...
In 2015, we put together a series of articles covering Solid State Drive technology, building from a single NAND cell to packaging, controller functions and SSD characteristics. This material is pertinent to all types of Solid State Drive from popular 2.5” SATA SSD to card level products such as CompactFlash, SD Card, PC Card and...
Why pay more money for something you don’t need? It’s obvious you shouldn’t. So the purpose of this article is to point out the reasons an OEM Embedded Systems designer would NEED Industrial Grade Flash Storage in their system. If you look at the home page of our Cactus website, you will see our tagline,...
Cactus will be exhibiting its industry leading Industrial Grade and Industrial MLC products along with new flash storage offerings at Embedded World 2016 from February 23-25, 2016 in Nuremberg, Germany. OEMs are encouraged to visit our booth to discuss technical, sales and/or business items with our staff. We will be located in Hall 2, Booth...
The USB interface and Flash Drives have been around since the mid-1990s. In fact, USB Flash Drives are so common, little thought is given to what their made of. The “guts” of the USB Flash Drive determine if it is not reliable for much more than a single use - all the way up to...
SLC SD cards were introduced with the SD Card specification in 1999 by the SD Association. In fact, many of the cards at that time were made exclusively with SLC NAND since that was the predominant memory at the time.Over the years, memory used in mainstream SD Cards has gone through two major changes. First, the...
Industrial Grade CFast cards are a follow on to the successful Industrial CompactFlash cards which have been used in embedded applications for decades. CFast is in a very similar package as the Compact Flash cards, but has a SATA electrical interface. The higher performance and support by the CompactFlash Association makes Industrial CFast cards a compelling...
Limited physical space on some embedded OEM designs creates the need for an equally small flash storage card. The Industrial microSD card at 11mm x 15mm x 1mm is capable of meeting many of these constrained space designs requirements. The microSD card was originally designed by SanDisk to meet the needs of SMART phone and other small...
