Design your flash card interface to the spec, not to a vendor
Over the years, I've seen many embedded systems designed to a specific vendor's flash card. In most cases, industry standard specs were available at the time of the design as reference. The industry standard specs contain signal and timing information for worst-case situations on a given form factor.
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