A1
CF / PATA Flash Memory ControllerThe Hyperstone A1 family of Flash Memory Controllers together with provided application and flash specific firmware offers an easy-to-use turnkey platform for high endurance robust flash cards and disks such as CF cards and PATA SSD.
- Dedicated industrial CF card controller
- Patented superior read and write wear leveling together with up to 24-Bit ECC ensuring highest reliability and endurance
- Exceptional power fail robustness
- Optimized 32-Bit RISC core, instruction set and firmware for flash handling
- 2 channel controller provides optimal performance for target applications
- Most power efficient design together with power saving features
- S.M.A.R.T. features supported
- Custom features can be implemented with simple firmware upgrades
- ASSP with minimal external active components
- Turnkey solution including firmware, manufacturing kit, test and development hardware, and reference schematics for applications such as CFC, 2.5" PATA solid state disk (SSD)
Product Information
Target Application
- High reliability & industrial CompactFlash Cards (CFC)
- High reliability & industrial PATA Solid State Disks (SSD)
- PATA Disk-on-Modules (DoM)
- Embedded Flash Disk or Multi-Chip-Modules (MCM)
- Multi-Chip-Package (MCP)
- Disk-on-Board
Performance
- Sustained read up to 60 MB/s
- Sustained write up to 60 MB/s
- 4K random write IOPS: up to maximim of 300 depending on TRIM and flash
- Host data transfer rate in PIO mode 6 or MDMA mode 4 up to 25 MB/s
- Host data transfer rate in UDMA mode 6 up to 133 MB/s
- CF current consumption < 100mA
Host Interface & Compliance
- Fully compliant to CompactFlash 4.1 and compatible to 5.0 specifications
- Fast ATA supporting PIO mode6, MDMA mode 4, UDMA mode 6 in True-IDE mode
- PCMCIA specification version 2.1
- Configurable as removable, hot swappable, and fixed drive
- Memory mapped or I/O operation
- Automatic sensing of PCMCIA or True-IDE mode
- PCMCIA attribute memory
- PCMCIA configuration option register, card configuration and status register and pin replacement register support
- Support for SMART Commands
Controller & CPU
- High performance 32-Bit Hyperstone RISC microprocessor
- Large internal RAM provides firmware flexibility
- ISO7816 interface for SmartCard applications
- ISO7816 pins can also be used as GPIO for customer specific applications
- Supply voltage power-down detection for full power-down robustness
- Capacitor buffered power down and write recovery possible
- Supply voltage 3.3V and 5V tolerant host side I/O
- Flash memory interface supply voltage 3.3V
Flash Memory & Interface Handling
- 2 channel with dedicated direct flash memory access (DFA) units including sector buffers and interleaving capability
- Supporting all control signals for NAND type flash memory connection
- Asynchronous SDR interface, ONFI 1.0 compliant and compatible with ONFI 2.x.
- Supporting direct connection of up to 16 flash memory chip enables (CE) - eight per channel
- Flash memory power down logic and flash memory write protect control
- BCH Error Correcting Code (ECC) capable of correcting 6 or 8 Bit in a 512 bytes sector and 24 Bit in a 1024 bytes double-sector with additional CRC
- Support for all available SLC flash technologies including (2x and 1x) and certain MLC flashes (2x)
- Supporting page sizes of up to 8 KB
- Flash management including mapping of logical block addresses (LBA) to corresponding physical block addresses (PBA)
- Bad Block Management
- Static and Global Wear leveling to maximize write endurance
- Inherent on-the-fly garbage collection
- Read Wear leveling to maximize data retention and refresh data subject to read disturbance
Management of sudden power-fails - Interleaving, cache, and multi-plane programming
- Firmware can be stored redundantly for recovery and for periodic refresh
- Future Flashes can be supported by simple firmware upgrades
- Customized firmware, optimizations and feature implementations possible upon request
Block Diagram
Order Information
- A1-LBT06 (TQFP 128, 16 CEs, RoHS, 0 to +70 °C)
- A1-ILBT06 (TQFP 128, 16 CEs, RoHS, -40 to +85 °C)
- A1-LBT06U (TQFP 128, 8 CEs, ISO7816 I/F, RoHS, 0 to +70 °C)
- A1-ILBT06U (TQFP 128, 8 CEs, ISO7816 I/F, RoHS, -40 to +85 °C)
- A1-ILBL07 (LQFP 144, 16 CEs, RoHS, -40 to +85 °C)
- A1-0BBD0 (Tested Die / Wafer)
Target Markets
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