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One of the most widely utilized flash memory products in the world, STEC CompactFlash has become the card of choice for discriminating customers requiring the highest quality and reliability in a high-capacity yet compact storage solution.
STEC's CF cards are available in Type I format up to 16GB.
Engineered for quality, reliability, and compatibility, STEC CF cards are ideal for industrial and embedded applications. The card's state-of-the-art controller and firmware design offers the highest flexibility to support a broad range of customer applications, as well as future flash technologies.
STEC also offers value-added services such as customized form factors, testing, custom firmware, software imaging, controlled bill of materials, customer-specific labeling and serialization, and in-field support.
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Embedded system designers are constantly challenged with delivering more performance to meet the needs of demanding embedded applications in the industrial space while also achieving smaller and smaller footprint designs with low power consumption and high system availability. System designers also value design flexibility enabled by a variety of SSD formats that comply to industry standards and provide support for parallel and serial interfaces, all of which ensure compatibility for simplified system integration. Platform stability with regard to continuity of supply, locked bill-of-materials, product change notifications, long product lifecycles, etc. is the final ingredient for a successful program/design.
STEC’s industrial-grade embedded solid state storage solutions offer system designers just that.
With a state-of-the-art SSD grade controllers that offers all of the performance, reliability, and data integrity of many enterprise-class SSDs (but in a much smaller format) combined with industry-standard form-factors, STEC embedded solid state storage solutions provide the ideal technical solution for embedded system designers. Enhancing this value is STEC’s commitment to supporting industrial and enterprise customers with product qualification and supply related activities as well as product lifecycle and documentation requirements.
• CFA Compliant
• ATA and True IDE Mode Support
• Capacities up to 16GB
• Built-in Wear Leveling and Block Management for ultra-high endurance
• Built-in power-down data protection
• Built-in ECC Engine for high data integrity
• Commercial and Industrial operating temperature range
• Optional Read/Write Protection
High performance is ensured via SLC NAND flash and state-of-the-art controller technology. Additional customized features allow for optimized performance in small sector write applications.
STEC's patented IC Tower® Stacking Technology makes it possible to provide the highest capacity CompactFlash in the industry, up to 16GB with 32GB supported in the near future.
STEC's proprietary state-of-the-art flash memory controllers provide high data reliability and endurance. The built-in ECC engine can detect up to 5-byte errors and correct up to 4-byte errors, while sophisticated wear leveling algorithms guarantee +2M Write/Erase Cycles. Based on SLC Flash and high quality components, STEC Compact Flash solutions provide an unparalleled MTBF of more than 8,000,000 hrs. In the event of host system power loss, data integrity is further assured via STEC's power-down data protection methodology ensuring that critical data is not lost or corrupted.
For applications requiring an IDE interface, compatibility is ensured by the Compact Flash card's ATA and True IDE support. The CompactFlash cards can also operate in legacy PIO modes as well as DMA. Because STEC develops its own controller and firmware, the CompactFlash cards can be adapted to meet a wide variety of timing and software requirements.
CompactFlash cards can be used to interface with a host system via the standard 50-pin CF connector or a standard 68-pin PCMCIA connector when using the STEC PCMCIA adaptor.
STEC's TotalDriveProtection provides multiple levels of security including password write-protection (enabled in hardware and software), read-protection, secure partitioning, and custom ID strings to allow customers to protect preloaded content from piracy.
STEC's CompactFlash cards comply with CE requirements, FCC standards, and have been approved by the UL organization. The cards are also provided in full lead-free (RoHS-6) designs for worldwide deployment.
