Appendix B. PC/CF Card Information
PC or CompactFlash (CF) cards provide a relatively inexpensive, off-the-shelf
means of retrieving data from many of our CRBasic dataloggers or expanding
the on-board datalogger memory. The datalogger’s memory can be expanded
up to 2 Gbytes with the use of these cards. Some dataloggers can use either a
PC or CF card, and others can only use a CF card with the appropriate
expansion module. Table B-1 lists the compatibility between dataloggers and
cards.
TABLE B-1. CRBasic Dataloggers and PC/CF Cards
Datalogger
Card Slot
CF Card
PC Card
CR200 Not
Available
Not
Available Not
Available
CR800/850 Not
Available Not Available
Not Available
CR1000 CFM100
or
NL115
Yes
No
CR3000 CFM100
or
NL115
Yes
No
CR5000
Built In
Yes, with Adaptor
Yes
CR9000(X) Built
In
Yes, with Adaptor
Yes
PC/CF cards use NAND (Not AND) Flash (non-volatile) memory which has
the following characteristics: high density, low cost/bit, sequential access,
scalable, and a single standard. There are two types of NAND Flash memory:
Single-Level Cell (SLC) and Multi-Level Cell (MLC). SLC NAND Flash
sometimes called Binary Flash, store one bit of data per memory cell and has
two states: erased (1) or programmed (0). MLC NAND Flash store two bits of
data per memory cell and has four states: erased (11), two thirds (10), one
third (01), or programmed (00)
1
. At first glance, the MLC cards seem more
desirable, because each cell can hold more information. However, as
summarized in Table B-2, the increased data storage comes at a price, mainly
speed.
TABLE B-2. SLC and MLC Performance Characteristics
SLC
MLC
Voltage
3.3 V / 1.8 V
3.3 V
Page Size / Block Size
2KB / 128KB
512 B / 32 KB or 2 KB /
256 KB
Access Time (maximum)
25 µs
70 µs
Page Program Time
250 µs
1.2 ms
Partial Programming
Yes No
Endurance
100,000 10,000
Write Data Rate
8 MB/s+
1.5 MB/s
There is a notable performance difference between the two types of NAND
Flash memory. In a performance study by Samsung Electronics
2
, Samsung
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