Industrial micro IDE Flash (MIF) Module - HERMIT Series © 2010 APRO Co., Ltd.
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1.1. Scope
This document describes the features and specifications and installation guide of APRO’s Industrial 40/44-pin MIF Hermit
Series. In the appendix, there provides order information, warranty policy, RMA/DOA procedure for the most convenient
reference.
1.2. System Features
Non-volatile memory and no moving parts
SLC NAND type flash technology
Disk capacity from 128MB to 8GB
ATA interface and True IDE mode
Master/Slave
Switch
Data transfer supports PIO-4 and UDMA-4 (Default setting)
Performance up to 40.0MB/sec
Automatic 4 bits error correction and retry capabilities
Supports power down commands and Auto stand-by / sleep modes.
+5 V ±10
％
or +3.3 V ±5
％
operation
40-pin MIF support pin-20 5V power-input.
MTBF > 3,000,000 hours.
Shock : 50g (Duration
：
10ms, 3 axes), compliance to IEC 68-2-27
Vibration : 5g (7 Hz to 2000 Hz, 3 axes), compliance to IEC 68-2-6
Rugged environment is working well
Very high performance, very low power consumption
Low
weight,
Noiseless
1.3. ATA/ATAPI-6 Standard
APRO Industrial 40/44-pin MIF disks are fully compatible with the ATA/ATAPI-6 standard.
1.4. Technology Independence - Static Wear Leveling
In order to gain the best management for flash memory, APRO Industrial CF Cards – Hermit series supports
Static
Wear Leveling technology
to manage the Flash system. The life of flash memory is limited; the management
is to
increase the life of the flash product.
A static wear-leveling algorithm evenly distributes data over an entire Flash cell array and searches for the
least used physical blocks. The identified low cycled sectors are used to write the data to those locations. If
blocks are empty, the write occurs normally. If blocks contain static data, it moves that data to a more heavily
used location before it moves the newly written data. The static wear leveling maximizes effective endurance
Flash array compared to no wear leveling or dynamic wear leveling.
