Cactus Technologies Adds 220 Series MLC CF Cards

Cactus Technologies, Ltd. launched the 220 Series Commercial Grade Compact Flash product.

This product meets the CF type I form factor as defined by the Compact Flash Association and is offered in capacities from 4GB through 128GB.

This MLC NAND CF card has fixed BOM control, high performance, rugged construction and wear leveling and defect management. It supports TrueIDE Mode; ATA PIO Mode 0-6; Multiword DMA Mode 0-4 and UDMA Mode 0-6.

Sai-Ying Ng, president, Cactus Technologies, said: “The new 220 Series Commercial Grade CF Card from Cactus is a high performance flash storage device and perfect for embedded solid state storage applications which do not require the specifications of our leading Industrial Grade flash storage products.“

Features:

• Standard Compact Flash type I form factor

• 4GB to 128GB capacities

• Fixed bill-of-material control

• 100K endurance cycles per block

• Altitude spec of 100,000 feet

• ECC and defect management

• 200K hour MTBF

• 3,000G shock; 30G vibration

• Based on MLC NAND memory

Joseph Chang, VP of engineering, said: “OEMs with light read applications may not require the high endurance or superior specifications of our Industrial Grade offering. In these cases, the 220 Series CF card will meet the requirements for their application at a fraction of the cost.“