WARMINSTER, Pa., 16 July 2008.ACT/Technico in Warminster, Pa., is introducing a data storage PCI mezzanine card (PMC) with as much as 128 gigabytes of NAND Flash memory for mass-storage in harsh-environment defense and aerospace applications.
The low-power Flash PMCStor comes in convection- and conduction-cooled configurations, and has a USB flash disk controller. The memory is organized as an array of four flash banks with throughputs of 15 megabytes per second per array when seen as individual USB drives, or as fast as 30 megabytes per second as one drive in RAID mode.
Additional features include wear leveling, write protect, and error detection and bad block correction. Three high-speed USB ports, one type 'A' on the front panel and two ports via the rear PN4 I/O connector, allow for additional memory access options.
The Flash PMCStor consumes less than 5 Watts of power in operating mode and will fit single-board computers and carrier boards for CompactPCI, VME, VXS and VPX, or any board with a standard PMC site. The Flash PMCStor supports PCI bus clock frequencies as fast as 66 MHz in non-Monarch mode at 32 or 64 bits wide.
Current operating systems supported include VxWorks, Linux, and Windows. The board is compatible with EMC 89/336/ECC, EN55022 CIE and EN50082-2 as well as USB version 2.0. It also complies with USB Mass Storage Class specification version 1.0 as well as USB Revision 1.0 OHCI and EHCI. For more information contact ACT/Technico online at www.acttechnico.com.
