Digital ICs/DSP: Storage Control Core Handles Magnetic, Flash, Or Optical Drives

March 15, 2004

The StoreSelect DS storage control core integrates an IDE Ultra ATA, PCMCIA, Compact Flash, and Compact Flash Plus functions into a single block of intellectual property. With the DriveSelect block, designers can build chips that work with virtually any type of storage media, whether magnetic, flash, or optical. The core includes the company's patent-pending SpeedSelect technology, which allows the integrated-development-environment core timing to be reprogrammed by software to support all ATA modes at just about any clock frequency. This lets the core support all drives, from basic DVD drives to the ultrafast 133-MHz UDMA storage devices. The StorSelect core can interface to a host processor either through the company's CoreFrame interface or the AHB slave interface for PIO access. Contact the company to discuss licensing.

Palmchip Corp.www.palmchip.com; (408) 952-2008

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Dave Bursky

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Dave Bursky, the founder of New Ideas in Communications, a publication website featuring the blog column Chipnastics – the Art and Science of Chip Design. He is also president of PRN Engineering, a technical writing and market consulting company. Prior to these organizations, he spent about a dozen years as a contributing editor to Chip Design magazine. Concurrent with Chip Design, he was also the technical editorial manager at Maxim Integrated Products, and prior to Maxim, Dave spent over 35 years working as an engineer for the U.S. Army Electronics Command and an editor with Electronic Design Magazine.