Month: April 2014
Industrial Grade micro SD Cards offer a simple and straightforward way to obtain a reliable storage medium in a very small physical footprint. Industrial Grade micro SD cards are based on the more dependable and costly Single Level Cell (SLC) NAND memory. The SLC microSD Cards can be connected electrically to an SPI, MMC or SD Interface...
Many older and current OEM system designs include a socketed Compact Flash card to store the Operating System, Application and other data. There are several advantages to this approach. [Video overview of Cactus Industrial Grade Compact Flash cards] Designing flexibility to meet several market needs with one base OEM design makes efficient use of engineering...
After a recent embedded trade show we were talking about how a person would know they need an Industrial Grade Flash Storage device in their system. From our experience with the visitors to our booth, people fell into two camps. They either completely understood the value of Industrial Grade SLC NAND based parts or didn’t understand...
Cactus Technologies is a global company focusing on Industrial and Embedded flash storage products. Staff and support organizations are available in every key market worldwide. With headquarters in Hong Kong, a global logistics capital, we are able to deliver products quickly to OEMs and distributors across the globe. The Cactus Team consists of ex-SanDisk executives...
For electronic system designers attempting to quantify a budget for their flash storage requirements, looking at total cost of ownership for the life of the program provides a needed sanity check. A really low price for a flash card generally signifies there is a limited amount of emphasis put into areas which increase the longevity...
