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Cactus Technologies, Limited

Industrial Grade

CFast Card

Product Manual

October 30, 2012

Corporate Headquarters

Suite C, 15/F, Capital Trade Center

62 Tsun Yip Street, Kwun Tong

Kowloon, Hong Kong

Summary of Contents for CFast

Page 1: ...Cactus Technologies Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual October 30 2012 Corporate Headquarters Suite C 15 F Capital Trade Center 62 Tsun Yip Street Kwun Tong Kowloon Hong Kong 1...

Page 2: ...cation where the failure of a Cactus Technologies product can result in personal injury or death Users of Cactus Technologies products for such unintended and unauthorized applications shall assume al...

Page 3: ...Absolute Maximum Ratings 12 3 2 2 DC Characteristics 12 3 2 3 AC Characteristics 13 4 ATA Drive Register Set Definition and Protocol 13 4 1 ATA Task File Definitions 13 4 1 1 Data Register 13 4 1 2 Er...

Page 4: ...Voltage support 3 3V 10 The Cactus Technologies CFast card is a high capacity solid state flash memory product that complies with the Serial ATA 2 6 standard and is functionally compatible with a SAT...

Page 5: ...drive To write or read a sector or multiple sectors the host computer software simply issues an ATA Read or Write command to the drive as per the SATA protocol The host software then waits for the com...

Page 6: ...ronmental Specifications Cactus Technologies Industrial CFast Temperature Operating 0 C to 70 C Standard 45 C to 90 C Extended Humidity Operating Non Operating 8 to 95 non condensing Vibration Operati...

Page 7: ...2 3 Performance Start Up Times Reset to ready 35 msec typical Read Transfer Rate Up to 85MBytes sec Write Transfer Rate Up to 80 Mbytes sec Controller Overhead Command to DRQ 2 msec maximum 2 4 Syste...

Page 8: ...Cactus Technologies Limited 2 5 1 CFast Card Physical Specifications Cactus Technologies Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual v1 1 8...

Page 9: ...Cactus Technologies Limited Figure 2 1 Type I CFast Card Dimensions Cactus Technologies Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual v1 1 9...

Page 10: ...Cactus Technologies Limited Figure 2 2 Type I CFast Card with Write Protect switch Cactus Technologies Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual v1 1 10...

Page 11: ...dustrial CFast card interface 3 1 CFast Pin Assignments and Pin Type Cactus Technologies CFast signal pinout conforms to CFA specifications The signal pin assignments and descriptions are listed in Ta...

Page 12: ...function is active only if the WP switch is not in the WP position 3 2 Electrical Specifications The following table defines all D C Characteristics for the CFast products Unless otherwise stated con...

Page 13: ...ary Secondary or Master Slave configurations Each SATA channel supports only one SATA device with the register selection as defined by the ATA standard 4 1 ATA Task File Definitions The following sect...

Page 14: ...register contains the starting sector number or bits 7 0 of the Logical Block Address LBA for any SSD data access for the subsequent command 4 1 6 Cylinder Low LBA 15 8 Register This register contain...

Page 15: ...e valid when this bit is set to a 1 Bit 6 RDY RDY indicates whether the device is capable of performing operations requested by the host This bit is cleared at power up and remains cleared until the d...

Page 16: ...esses 2 Do not install a Floppy and a SSD in the system at the same time 3 Implement a socket adapter that can be programmed to conditionally tri state D7 of I 0 address 3F7 377 when a SSD product is...

Page 17: ...29h Y Y Y Y Read Sector s 20h or 21h Y Y Y Y Read Sector s Ext 24h Y Y Y Y Read Verify Sector s 40h or 41h Y Y Y Y Read Verify Sector s Ext 42h Y Y Y Y Recalibrate 1Xh D Security Disable Password F6h...

Page 18: ...tes Data Field Type Information 0 0040H 2 General configuration bit significant information 1 XXXXH 2 Default number of cylinders capacity dependent 2 C837H 2 Reserved 3 00XXH 2 Default number of head...

Page 19: ...000H 10 Reserved 75 0000H 2 Queue depth of 1 76 0106H 2 Supports SATA NCQ Gen 1 Gen2 signaling rates 77 0000H 2 Reserved 78 0004H 2 Supports DMA Setup Auto Activate optimization 79 0000H 2 Status of w...

Page 20: ...o 70 C I Extended temperature 45 C to 90 C Where T is memory type Blank Samsung T Toshiba only for 16 32GB Where WP is Write Protect option Blank no Write Protect WP with Write Protect switch Example...

Page 21: ...s Technologies Technical Support Cactus Technologies Limited Suite C 15 F Capital Trade Center 62 Tsun Yip Street Kwun Tong Kowloon Hong Kong Tel 852 27972261 Fax 852 27973777 Email tech cactus tech c...

Page 22: ...de Sales Offices Cactus Technologies Limited Suite C 15 F Capital Trade Center 62 Tsun Yip Street Kwun Tong Kowloon Hong Kong Tel 852 27972277 Fax 852 27973777 Email sales cactus tech com Cactus Techn...

Page 23: ...will have the option of repairing replacing or refunding the purchase price the defective product if the following conditions are met A The defective product is returned to Cactus Technologies for fa...

Page 24: ...th the following information product model number and description nature of defect conditions of use proof of purchase and purchase date If approved Cactus Technologies will issue a Return Material Au...