Digital ICs/DSP: Flash-Memory Controllers Deliver Data At Rates Of Up To 16 Mbytes/s

Dec. 4, 2003

The SM2XX Compact Flash (CF), Multimedia Card (MMC), and Secure Digital (SD) card flash controllers offer sustained performance of 10 Mbytes/s for data transfers and 8 Mbytes/s for write operations. The SM320 USB 2.0 flash disk controllers offer a 16-Mbyte/s data-transfer rate and a 14-Mbyte/s write throughput. Samples and production quantities of the SM2XX controllers are available immediately. In lots of 10,000, the SM2XX devices cost less than $3.00 each, while the SM320 costs less than $2.00 apiece. The SM320 is currently sampling and will be available in production quantities by the end of this year.

Silicon Motion Inc.www.siliconmotion.com

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Dave Bursky

Technologist

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.