Year: 2014
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...
An optional Physical Write Protect Switch feature of the Cactus Industrial Grade Compact Flash and CFast Cards offers OEM designers the opportunity to prevent writes to the solid state storage prior to their systems leaving the factory or after sensitive data has been stored. There are many uses for this feature. In some Gaming Applications, once code...
Cactus Technologies welcomes you to visit our booth at the upcoming EELive! Conference and Expo 2014. The exhibition is being held from April 1 - 3, 2014 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA. In addition to over 200 exhibitors displaying state-of-the-art technology in all facets of embedded technologies, the EE Live! Conference...
There are any number of reasons to consider a change of your Industrial Solid State Flash Storage Supplier. Varying from product discontinuation, to quality, reliability or delivery related issues or perhaps a change in ownership, management or support personnel. Whatever the reason for the change, there are a number of items that should be considered and analyzed...
Over the past several years, the storage interface for embedded flash storage applications has seen a migration from the IDE/ATA interface to lower pin count and in many cases faster SD/MMC and SATA interface devices. To address the physical size, ruggedness and performance requirements of diverse applications, several form factors have emerged in both the...
RoHS, short Reduction of Hazardous Substances, is a directive initially adopted by the European Union in February 2003. Its purpose is the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. Directive 2002/95/EC was the first version of the RoHS regulations and was replaced by Directive 2011/65/EU in July 2011. While...
PC Motherboards and Single Board Computers (SBC) have several available options to attach a flash storage device. For a system with an IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) connector, a very simple solution is an IDE Disk-On-Module (DOM). The IDE interface was originally designed for rotating HDD (Hard Disk Drives) in the PC system. The 3.5” or...
