F3 | NAND Flash Memory Controller
CF / PATA NAND Flash Memory Controller for Industrial Embedded Storage SolutionsThe Hyperstone F3 NAND Flash Memory Controller together with flash specific firmware offers an easy-to-use turnkey platform for high endurance flash disks of various form factors and interface standards.
- Patented superior wear leveling together with ECC ensuring highest reliability and endurance
- Optimized 32 Bit RISC core, instruction set and firmware for flash handling
- Dual channel Direct Flash Access unit (DFA) including sector buffers for interleaved operations
- Most power efficient design together with additional power saving features
- Smart and custom features possible by simple firmware upgrades
- ASSP with no need for external voltage regulator, detector or diodes, only few capacitors or resistors need to be added to bill of materials
- Turnkey solution including firmware, manufacturing kit, test and development hardware, and reference schematics for a CF card or 2.5” solid state disk, and testmetrix log files
Product Information
Target Application
- High reliability & industrial CompactFlashTM Cards (CFC)
- Solid State Disks (SSD)
- IDE Disk-on-Modules (DoM)
- Embedded Flash
- Multi-Chip-Modules (MCM)
- Multi-Chip-Package (MCP)
- PCMCIA or ATA PC cards
- Disk-on-Board
Performance
- Sustained read up to 45 MB/s
- Sustained write up to 30 MB/s with interleaving
- Random read up to 35 MB/s
- Random write up to 6 MB/s
- Custom performance optimizations for specified file sizes possible
- Data transfer rate to flash memories: up to 80 MB/s
- Host data transfer rate in PIO mode 6 or MDMA mode 4 up to 25 MB/s
- Host data transfer rate in UDMA mode 4 up to 66 MB/s
Host Interface & Compliance
- Fully compliant to CompactFlashTM 3.0 and compatible to 4.1 specifications
- Fast ATA host-to-buffer transfer rates supporting PIO mode 6, MDMA mode 4, UDMA mode 4 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
- Four integrated 512 Byte sector buffers and 256 Byte PCMCIA attribute memory
- PCMCIA configuration option register, card configuration and status register
and pin replacement register support
Controller & CPU
- High performance 32-Bit Hyperstone RISC microprocessor architecture
- 10 MHz to 70MHz clock frequency using adjustable internal oscillator
- 16 KB internal Boot ROM
- 20 KB internal SRAM
- Card operation current 75 mA max.
- Automatic power-down during wait periods, power saving mode
incl. automatic wake-up and sleep mode with Icc < 100 µA - Supply voltage 5.0V ±10 % or 3.3V ±10%
- On-chip voltage regulator for 3.3V flash memory power supply
- On-chip voltage regulator for 2.5V processor core power supply
- Internal voltage detector
Flash Memory & Interface Handling
- Dual channel direct flash memory access (DFA)
- Supporting all control signals for NAND type flash memory connection
- Supporting direct connection of up to 16 flash memory chips
enables (CE) - eight per channel - Flash memory power down logic and flash memory write protect control
- Error Correcting Code (ECC) capable of correcting 4 symbols
in a 512 Bytes sector with additional CRC - Firmware storage in flash memory
- Firmware is loaded into internal memory by the boot ROM
- Flash management including mapping of logical block addresses (LBA)
to corresponding physical block addresses (PBA) - Bad Block Management
- Wear leveling
- Power Loss Protection
- Interleaving, cache, and multi-plane programming
Order Information
- F3-ILCT05 (TQFP 100, 8 CEs, RoHS, -40 to +85 °C)
- F3-LCT05 (TQFP 100, 8 CEs, RoHS, 0 to +85 °C)
- F3-ILCT06 (TQFP 128, 16 CEs, RoHS, -40 to +85 °C)
- F3-ILCB06 (BGA 124, 16 CEs, RoHS, -40 to +85 °C)
- F3-0BBD0 (KGD / Wafer, 16 CEs)