Description

Synchrotech's Industrial Grade CompactFlash™ ATA Memory Cards are economical and good performance. These industrial grade cards feature extended temperature ranges with better shock and vibration resistance. Intended for industrial and military applications they make an excellent solid state alternative to hard drives for embedded systems. CompactFlash Cards are designed specifically for mass storage. They include an intelligent controller providing these key features: flash media control, a PC Card ATA (IDE) interface, and a sophisticated defect and error management system. This system is analogous to those in magnetic disk drives, completely transparent to host devices, and consumes no user data space. CompactFlash Cards are 100% compatible with consumer electronics, operating systems, utilities, and application programs supporting IDE disk drives.

Features

• CFA Compliant
• Capacities from 64MB to 16GB
• ATA and True IDE Mode Support
• ECC Engine for high data integrity
• Commercial and Industrial Operating Temperature Range
• Wear Leveling and Block Management
• Power-down protection
• CE Approved

Specifications

Memory Type

• Solid State NAND-based Flash Memory

Operating Modes

• Memory Mode
• I/O Mode (Contiguous, Primary and Secondary
• True IDE Mode

Data Transfer Rates

• Data Transfer Rate to and from host: 16.7MB/Sec. burst (theoretical)
• Read: up to 10MB/sec in ATA PIO mode 4
• Write: up to 6MB/sec in ATA PIO mode 4
• Read/Write unit is 512-byte sequential access
• On card ECC up to 6 Bytes per 512 Byte data sector

Physical Dimensions

• CompactFlash™ Enclosure: 36.4 x 42.8 x 3.3mm (LWH)
• Weight: 14.2 grams

Electrical Characteristics

• Operational Voltage: 3.3 Volts ± 5% or 5 Volts ± 10%

Power Consumption 3.3 Volts

• Read: 23 mA (Typ.), 30 mA (Max.)
• Write: 28 mA (Typ.), 30 mA (Max.)
• sleep: 2.0mA (max.)

Power Consumption 5 Volts

• Read: 23 mA (Typ.), 30 mA (Max.)
• Write: 28 mA (Typ.), 30 mA (Max.)
• sleep: 2.0mA (max.)

Operating Environment

• Temperature Operating: -40 to 85° C
• Temperature Non-Operating: -55 to 125° C
• Vibration: 15G peak-to-peak
• Shock: 1,000G max

Reliability

• 6-bit ECC
• MTBF > 4,000,000 Hours
• Patent-Pending Wear Leveling Algorithm
• Less than 1 Non-Recoverable Error in 10¹⁴ bits read

Certifications

• CE, UL, FCC, RoHS

Typical Applications

• Industrial Computers, Embedded Systems, Data Acquisition, Automotive, Flight Systems, Military, Manufacturing, Agriculture

Warranty

Support

CompactFlash FAQ and Information

Mac OS X 10.2.4: Compact Flash Card Does Not Appear in the Finder

Apple support document #75509 dealing with CompactFlash

Data Retrieval

Is There Any Way to Retrieve Data From Damaged PCMCIA Memory Media Cards?

* The advertised memory capacity of this device represents unformatted capacity. Please note that once formatted and due to variations in flash module block limitations, the functional storage space will be lower than the advertised capacity.