Month: June 2014
Many Motherboards, Single Board Computers (SBC) and embedded systems come with a 10-pin USB header to attach external USB connectors. This same header can be used for a low power, rugged and reliable flash storage device called a USB Disk-On-Module (DOM for short). The Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface was originally designed in the mid-1990s to provide...
NAND Flash Memory is a non-volatile memory device which stores blocks as opposed to bytes of data as with NOR flash. It was developed to be lower cost, have improved endurance and read/write performance than NOR flash. Since NAND flash stores more data on the same physical area of silicon, chip densities are increased and...
I was just reviewing the latest Q1 2014 NAND Supplier Revenue and Market Share numbers from DRAMeXchange and was curious how it compared to a Q2 2013 Revenue/Market Share Post from last year. For comparison’s sake, I created two tables in this post which tell an interesting story. In three quarters, the NAND Flash market has grown...
With the advent of embedded applications requiring higher performance storage capabilities, new form factors and interfaces have emerged to meet those needs. A popular SATA interface form factor for Industrial embedded environments is the mSATA. mSATA (Mini-SATA) is also referred to by its JEDEC specification of MO-300. At 50.8mm x 29.85mm the mSATA delivers a...
