Product category: Memory Devices and Modules
News Release from: TDK Electronics Europe | Subject: GBDriver RA6 NAND Flash memory controller
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 December 2006
Latest flash memory chip support
New controller supports the latest Flash memory chips and offers higher reliability for applications replacing HDDs, and an increase in the speed of data transmission
TDK Corporation has announced the development of the GBDriver RA6 NAND Flash memory controller LSI. The controllers are fully compatible with earlier NAND Flash memory chips and can control the latest two-plane write Flash memories. The GBDriver RA6 controllers can control up to eight 8-Gbit NAND Flash memory chips for a maximum of 8 GByte.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 December 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The GBDriver RA6 series features improved NAND Flash memory management methods, which brings about a more reliable Flash Memory Control.
Even though data that is being written to the memory is excessively concentrated, data is not concentrated in only one area of the memory.
This increases multiple uses and the capacity of the memory chip, enhancing reliability even when NAND Flash memory chips are used in place of HDDs.
The GBDriver RA6 controllers support Ultra DMA Mode 2, which achieves maximum data transmission speeds of 33.3MByte/s, making them suitable for controlling the latest Flash memory chips with the industry's fastest data transmission speeds.
In support of the Ultra DMA host interface, a new Flash memory control format has been adopted, enabling it to achieve a burst-write performance of 23MByte/s (equivalent to 150x speed) and a host read performance of 24MByte/s (equivalent to 160x speed).
The GBDriver RA6 controllers are ideal for storage applications for operating systems, file systems, user data on consumer and industrial embedded system devices and IT equipment, and applications with Silicon Disks including hybrid PCs and PCMCIA ATA cards are also anticipated.
Other features of the new NAND Flash Memory Controller include an improvement in the power interruption tolerance, as well as an error correction and recovery feature.
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