HCC Embedded Flash Management Software With Support for Adesto FusionHD Non-Volatile Memories

HCC Embedded (HCC) announced its collaboration with Adesto Technologies Corporation to support the FusionHD serial flash technology.

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The company’s file system products use the features of FusionHD devices to improve performance and data retention, reliability, and battery life of smart IoT devices.

The firm offers flash management products, which enables customers to choose a solution depending on their product-design goals. Product developers can simulate the complete lifetime of the product and model their use cases leading to decisions that ensure their design is optimized for both cost and reliability. Customers also benefit from the company’s expert knowledge of issues relating to system fail-safety as well as support for specialist features such as emergency write and security that contribute to system reliability.

FusionHD NVMs are designed for next-gen consumer and industrial IoT edge devices. This technology builds on the IoT feature set of Fusion family with more capabilities, patented low-power technology, security features, and increased memory density options. This NVMs can bring system-level advantages to long-life industrial IoT devices such as sensors, meters and other edge devices and controllers. The extended battery life and operating voltage range offered by FusionHD NVMs help to prolong the active lifetime of these devices, which are often deployed in remote or inaccessible locations.

The company helps optimize target systems for cost, performance, reliability and battery life by using features of FusionHD serial flash technology, among them the following:

Interrupt on completion of an internal programming or erase operation, which helps decrease power consumption and reduces CPU load;
Small page write/erase units, which help with the design of fail-safe solutions; and
Internal RAM buffers that serve several purposes, including providing a mechanism for managing emergency writes.

There are many applications for FusionHD NVMs in industrial, medical monitoring, smart metering, home automation, and consumer electronics applications.

For that reason, the company has 4 embedded file system products that allow designers to get the most from FusionHD serial flash solutions:

Safeflash, a flash file system;
TINY flash file system for resource constrained environments;
SMF optimized for metering or data-logging type applications; and
SafeFTL flash translation layer, a management layer for FAT-compatible file systems.

“Serial flash memory is increasingly used for critical storage ranging from over-the-air updates to cost and system metadata,” said Paul Hill, senior marketing director, Adesto. “Ensuring that this data is safe, reliable, and secure under a wide range of normal and potential error conditions is paramount. The software required to manage this data is complex, and HCC provides proven, tested, and robust off-the-shelf file system solutions to meet these demands. Adesto’s FusionHD devices add a number of features that HCC has been able to use to improve system performance and specification.“

“For nearly 20 years, HCC’s flash management expertise has helped customers get the best performance out of their latest technologies,” said Dave Hughes, CEO, HCC Embedded. “The Adesto FusionHD technology has made significant technical improvements in serial flash technology. HCC capitalizes on its new features to further improve all aspects of the file systems – from build cost to reliability and battery life – compared to more traditional serial flash solutions available today.“

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April 25, 2019 | Press Release