Author: Steve Larrivee
In 2015, we put together a series of articles covering Solid State Drive technology, building from a single NAND cell to packaging, controller functions and SSD characteristics. This material is pertinent to all types of Solid State Drive from popular 2.5” SATA SSD to card level products such as CompactFlash, SD Card, PC Card and...
Why pay more money for something you don’t need? It’s obvious you shouldn’t. So the purpose of this article is to point out the reasons an OEM Embedded Systems designer would NEED Industrial Grade Flash Storage in their system. If you look at the home page of our Cactus website, you will see our tagline,...
Cactus will be exhibiting its industry leading Industrial Grade and Industrial MLC products along with new flash storage offerings at Embedded World 2016 from February 23-25, 2016 in Nuremberg, Germany. OEMs are encouraged to visit our booth to discuss technical, sales and/or business items with our staff. We will be located in Hall 2, Booth...
The USB interface and Flash Drives have been around since the mid-1990s. In fact, USB Flash Drives are so common, little thought is given to what their made of. The “guts” of the USB Flash Drive determine if it is not reliable for much more than a single use - all the way up to...
SLC SD cards were introduced with the SD Card specification in 1999 by the SD Association. In fact, many of the cards at that time were made exclusively with SLC NAND since that was the predominant memory at the time.Over the years, memory used in mainstream SD Cards has gone through two major changes. First, the...
Industrial Grade CFast cards are a follow on to the successful Industrial CompactFlash cards which have been used in embedded applications for decades. CFast is in a very similar package as the Compact Flash cards, but has a SATA electrical interface. The higher performance and support by the CompactFlash Association makes Industrial CFast cards a compelling...
Limited physical space on some embedded OEM designs creates the need for an equally small flash storage card. The Industrial microSD card at 11mm x 15mm x 1mm is capable of meeting many of these constrained space designs requirements. The microSD card was originally designed by SanDisk to meet the needs of SMART phone and other small...
Industrial Grade CompactFlash cards have been the work horse for memory storage in embedded applications for two decades. This article looks at how they’re used in the system, different varieties and options available. Due to their long history of success in industrial applications, Cactus plans to continue production of the Industrial CompactFlash cards for at least...
During Christmas and New Year’s vacation in Brazil this year, I’m reminded of the harsh requirements of Industrial Grade Flash Storage Products and their requirements to work 24/7 in all conditions. Wide Temperature Industrial Compact Flash Cards are ideal for high temperature environments such as the hot Grill (Churrasqueira) and low temp applications as ice cold beverages....
With the recent introduction of 3D NAND flash technology, previous NAND components (aka planar NAND) have been predicted to have a very limited future. But, if you dig into this subject deeper, you’ll find there is a need for planar NAND for industrial embedded applications for many years to come. First, planar NAND is the NAND...
