
STMicroelectronics
Summary description
The CompactFlash is a small form factor non-volatile memory card which provides high capacity data storage. Its aim is to capture, retain and transport data, audio and images, facilitating the transfer of all types of digital information between a large variety of digital systems.
FEATUREs
■ Custom-designed, highly-integrated memory controller
– Fully compliant with CompactFlashTM specification 3.0
– Fully compatible with PCMCIA specification
– PC Card ATA Interface supported
– True IDE mode compatible
– Up to PIO mode 6 supported
– Up to 4 Multi-Word DMA supported
– Hardware RS-code ECC (4 Bytes/528 Bytes correction)
■ Small form factor
– 36.4mm x 42.8mm x 3.3mm
■ Low-power CMOS technology
■ 3.3V / 5.0V power supply
■ Power saving mode (with Automatic Wake-up)
■ High reliability
– MTBF > 3,000,000 hours
– Data reliability: < 1 non-recoverable error per 1014 bits read
– Endurance: > 2,000,000 Erase/Program cycles
– Number of card insertions/removals: >10,000
■ Hot swappable
■ High performance
– Up to 23.8MB/s transfer rate
– Sustained Write performance (host to card): 12.5MB/s
– Sustained Read Performance (Host to Card: 19MB/s)
■ Available densities (formatted)
– 32 MBytes to 4 GBytes
■ Operating System support
– Standard Software Drivers operation