Month: April 2015
This is Blog #6 of 13 in our Solid State Drives 101 educational series. If you're ready, continue to Blog #7: Basic Controller Overview. Previous articles on the NAND architecture started at the basic NAND cell and built up to the NAND die level. We go up one more level in this article to discuss common NAND component...
Over the past several years there has been a migration from Hard Disk Drives (HDD) to Solid State Drives (SSD). The added SSD advantages of performance, power and environmental specifications have proven to outweigh their additional cost in many applications.The ease of interchangeability of SSD for HDD, has made the switch happen without much thought....
One of the recurring themes when talking to embedded industrial design engineers is how much they hate to reopen an old design to solve an obsolescence issue. Not only is it annoying to redesign something that's working perfectly fine, but in many cases it comes with the added cost of requalification and/or recertification. What is a...
This is Blog #5 of 13 in our Solid State Drives 101 educational series. If you're ready, continue to Blog #6: Component Packaging. Previous articles on the NAND architecture ranged from the basic NAND cell up to the block level. In this article we move up to discuss the plane and die level.As discussed in earlier Solid...
Industrial Compact Flash have been the workhorse for rugged storage applications over the past couple decades and they continue to be used on new Embedded OEM designs due to their modularity, high reliability and ease of integration. Cactus Technologies offers three different product series of Industrial CF cards, one of which will meet the specific needs...
