Flash Memory Summit highlights practical design solutions

Flash Memory Summit highlights practical design solutions

Taking place from August 7 to 9 in Santa Clara, The Flash Memory Summit* will provide engineers using flash memory with in-depth half-day tutorials, panel discussions, keynotes, presentation sessions, workshops, special sessions and exhibits. Here are just a few of the new products that will be on exhibition.

Datalight (Bothell, WA) will show FlashFX Pro, an intelligent flash memory manager with prewritten drivers for hundreds of NAND and NOR parts, hybrid flash, and controllers. The software contains patented code for bad-block management, wear-leveling, and small-block emulation.

Hagiwara Sys-Com US (Irvine, CA) will demonstrate bNAND, an intelligent 1- and 2-Gbyte one-chip USB flash storage enhanced with UDRW technology that helps protect software IP in embedded applications.

Intel (Santa Clara, CA) will present its Z-U130 USB 2.0 storage solution, built around high-performance NAND flash and delivering a total solution with prices below the floor cost of traditional hard-disk drives.

Kingston Technology (Fountain Valley, CA) will display the DataTraveler II PlusMigo Edition USB Flash drive that gives the freedom to carry your own data and e-mail contents and Internet favorites and settings to any workstation.

PNY (Parsippany, NJ) will announce its new 4-in-1 Mobile Media Kit, which enables you to convert your Micro SD card into a Mini SD, standard SD, or USB Drive. The 4-in-1 will be available in 1- and 2-Gbyte capacities.

Pulsic (Santa Clara, CA) will demonstrate Unity—a physical design environment that improves design productivity for memories by automating the layout of peripheral and control logic. It incorporates hierarchical floor planning, detailed placement, interactive layout editing, and automatic routing, including a specialized memory routing capability.

Samsung Semiconductor (San Jose, CA) will show its flash solid-state drives—a cost-efficient means of storing business data. The drives use NAND memory with low power consumption and come in 4-, 8-, 16-, 32-, 48-, and 64-Gbit capacities.

Smart Modular Technologies (Fremont, CA) will demo its XceedUltra U100 Serial ATA solid-state drive, which leverages advanced block-striping data management technology. The drive demonstrates a 5X sequential write and 2X sequential read speed advantrage.

SanDisk (Milpitas, CA) will show its innovative, long-life TrustedFlash memory offerings that feature flexible security using the company’s unique 3-D memory technology.

SST (Sunnyvale, CA) will demo All-in-OneMemory, a memory subsystem blending the key benefits of NOR, NAND, and RAM in a unified architecture. The subsystem offers multiple gigabytes of execute-in-place code storage and satisfies the growing data storage needs of embedded applications.

—Jim Harrison

For more information on the Flash Memory Summit, see http://www.flashmemorysummit.com.